Grace Murrell Nisbet was born 26 March1900 in Arisaig, Inverness, the second child and only daughter of Robert James Nisbet and Alice Isabel Wright.
Her father was a civil engineer who worked in Egypt for a time and her first school was the Convent of Notre Dame de Sion in Alexandria.
The family returned to England in 1916 and Grace was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College. From there she went to Bristol University where she obtained a 1st class honours degree in history in 1921. She went on to Somerville College, Oxford where she earned 2nd class degrees in philosophy, politics and economics.
For the next three years she taught history at Brighton and Hove School.
She married Frank Wyndham Goldie, a handsome film actor, in 1928 and they lived in Liverpool for six years, where Grace wrote the book " Liverpool Repertory Theatre 1911-1934".
In 1934 they moved to London and for the next seven years she wrote radio criticism for "The Listener".
From 1942 until 1944 she worked for the Board of Trade and then joined the BBC in 1944.
She was awarded the OBE in 1958.
Grace died aged 86 in her London flat at 86 St Mary Abbots Court, Warwick Gardens, Kensington on 3 June 1986. Nicola Helen Brown of 5 Lincolns Inn Fields, WC2 registered the death.