Felicity Lane-Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox

This article is about the Conservative peer. For the dotcom businesswoman, see Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho.

Felicity Lane-Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox, OBE (22 June 1918 – 17 April 1988) was a Conservative member of the House of Lords and champion of disability issues.[1][2]

She was born in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, the daughter of Edward Lane-Fox, who was brother of George Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley. At the age of 12 she was paralysed by an attack of poliomyelitis.

In 1963 she became a member of the executive of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations.[1] In the 1976 New Year Honours list she was appointed OBE for services to disabled people.[3]

In 1981 she was made a life peer, as Baroness Lane-Fox, of Bramham in the County of West Yorkshire. Using an electric wheelchair, she was an active member of the House of Lords until her death.[2] She was the aunt of Robin Lane Fox and great-aunt of his daughter Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho.

References

  1. 1 2 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 1 March 2013
  2. 1 2 The Times, 18 April 1988, p. 18.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 46777. pp. 10–10. 1 January 1976. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
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