What is the personality type of Delia Ann Derbyshire? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Delia Ann Derbyshire from Electronic & Experimental and what is the personality traits.
Delia Ann Derbyshire (1937 – 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music. She carried out pioneering work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, including her electronic arrangement of the theme music to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who.
She has been referred to as "the unsung heroine of British electronic music", having influenced musicians including Aphex Twin, the Chemical Brothers and Paul Hartnoll of Orbital.
By the age of four, she was teaching others in her class to read and write in primary school, but said "The radio was my education". She was accepted at both Oxford and Cambridge, "quite something for a working class girl in the 'fifties, where only one in ten [students] were female", winning a scholarship to study mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge but, apart from some success in the mathematical theory of electricity, she claims she did badly. She gaduated Cambridge with a BA in mathematics and music.