Nesca Robb

Nesca Robb (27 May 1905 – 18 May 1976) was an Irish writer.

Life Nesca Adeline Robb was born in Belfast on 27 May 1905. She was the daughter of the managing director of J. Robb & Co., Charles Robb and his wife Agnes (née Arnold). Robb attended Richmond Lodge, and then to Somerville College, Oxford to study modern languages in 1924. She received a BA in 1927, an MA in 1931 and then a D.Phil. in 1932. She published her research as Neoplatonism of the Italian renaissance in 1935. Robb was a member of the Northern Ireland committee of the National Trust, to which she presented the family home, Lisnabreeny House, Castlereagh, in 1937. She engaged in social and voluntary work for a time, before moving to London in 1938 to take up a position at the London Institute of Italian Studies.