R.H. Parr studied history and law at Cambridge University, graduating with a double first, and became a solicitor after training in the City of London. She has spent thirty-five years working for legal businesses ranging from large corporates to High Street practices, seeing a wide spectrum of clients and problems. Since 2002 she has specialised in advising charities and social enterprises and she runs training seminars for trustees. In 2008 she set up her own law firm, which has brought her true professional satisfaction and a good reputation in the charity sector.A Devonian who has lived in Somerset since 1981, she is a former President of a Dorset agricultural society. Rosemary is a trustee of a national charity, founded by far-sighted Victorian ladies in 1859, that supports women's professional training.The death of her daughter Sophie from cancer in 2009 caused her to find out more about her unknown grandfather, who also lost a daughter to cancer, and to write her first book A Shy and Simple Warrior, an account of the turbulent half-century of history that determined his life.Rosemary enjoys playing tennis, singing in a choir, crewing on a sailing ship, trekking in Nepal, and painting watercolours.