Ann Spokes Symonds

Ann Spokes-Symonds is an author and former Lord Mayor of Oxford. Spokes, later Mrs Ann Spokes-Symonds, was born in 1925, the daughter of Peter Spokes and Lilla Clayton. Her father founded the Museum of Oxford in 1974.[1] She is a writer on the history of Oxford. She entered St Anne's College, Oxford in 1944, where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics;[2] she now holds a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford.[3] She is a trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust, having first become a trustee in 1959.[4] She served as Lord Mayor of Oxford in 1976/77 and also as the Chairman of Oxfordshire County Council 1981-1983.[3][5] She made a donation towards a statue of Alfred Russel Wallace which has been erected at the Natural History Museum.[6] She married the United Nations official and historian Richard Symonds (1918-2006) in 1980.[7][8]

Books

Spokes-Symonds' books include:[9]

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