Letter-cutter, born in Leiden, The Netherlands, sometimes working as Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley. She studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague, 1972–6, under Gerrit Noordzij, in 1976 moving to England, where she learned in the Cambridge workshop of the distinguished letter-cutter and sculptor David Kindersley. They married and they formed a partnership as The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop, which continued after his death. Their notable collaborations included the memorial to the abbots of St Albans in the Abbey there, and inscriptions for the Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield. Lida Kindersley was a fellow of the Art Workers’ Guild, a member of Atypi and the Double Crown Club and an honorary fellow and for a time chairman of the Wynkyn de Worde Society.