Molly Clutton-Brock - Telegraph Clutton-Brock always argued that people could not expect Zimbabwe to be perfect after 100 years of colonial capitalism. But it was perhaps fortunate that he did not live to see his protégé Didymus Mutasa morph into Mugabe's ruthless and hated minister of national security and head of secret police - or see his beloved Cold Comfort Farm (which Mutasa and others had reconstituted after independence) appear on international lists of companies under targeted sanctions as a suspected front for foreign investments by the country's corrupt ruling elite. Molly Allen was born in Cheshire on February 3 1912. Her father died when she was two, after which her mother moved the family to Eastbourne. After leaving school she became a handicrafts teacher, and it was while she was working at a Borstal in the East End of London that she met Guy Clutton-Brock, a Rugby and Cambridge-educated idealist who had scorned his privileged background to work among the poor. They married in 1934. During the Second World War they moved to Oxford House, an Anglican "settlement" in the East End which Guy developed as a community centre, offering employment to many conscientious objectors. Their daughter was born there, and Molly also undertook training in the Neumann-Neurode system. After the war they travelled to Berlin, where Guy served briefly as head of the religious affairs section of the British Control Commission, then worked for Christian Reconstruction in Europe. In 1947 they moved to a tiny cottage in Pembrokeshire, where Guy worked as a farm labourer. They went to Africa two years later to work at St Faith's Mission, an Anglican centre near Rusape. Molly's work with handicapped children began on a table on their farmhouse veranda. To begin with she worked with babies, but as word spread older children and patients from further afield began turning up, and, with financial help from supporters overseas, a makeshift clinic was built equipped with an exercise ladder, trapeze and other aids for physically handicapped children. It became known as the Mukuwapasi Clinic. Molly Clutton-Brock went on to found several more clinics in Rhodesia and Botswana, training local people in physiotherapy techniques. After they were thrown out of Rhodesia, the Clutton-Brocks bought a small cottage in Denbighshire, where they continued to live simply, with only cold water and no electricity. Molly Clutton-Brock is survived by her daughter. Molly Clutton-Brock, born February 3 1912, died April 27 2013