Felicity Lane-Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox

Felicity Lane-Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox

Felicity Lane-Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox , OBE (born June 22, 1918 in Newton Kyme , near Tadcaster , Yorkshire , † April 17, 1988 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party . Since 1981 she was a Life Peeress member of the House of Lords .

Life

Felicity Lane-Fox was born in Yorkshire, the youngest child of Captain Edward Lane-Fox, brother of George Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley , and his wife Enid Maud Bethell. Her father was a Justice of the Peace in Yorkshire. She had an older brother and two older sisters.

1932, at the age of twelve, she fell ill during a family holiday in Filey on polio . This illness resulted in severe pain and permanent symptoms of paralysis. Lane-Fox therefore received private lessons. She later reported as an adult that she could have endured the pain and paralysis in her youth, but not the fact that she could not play with other children. Felicity Lane-Fox was cared for by her mother Enid for over 40 years. Felicity Lane-Fox got involved early on in the interests of the disabled. She raised several thousand pounds in donations for the disabled by giving interviews and talking about her fate on the radio . She was driven around the UK by her mother in a converted double decker van, making her famous across the country.

In 1939 she began working as a volunteer at the Yorkshire Association for the Care of Cripples ; there she processed requests from applicants for assistance. During World War II , she worked as a secretary at Thorp Arch Children's Orthopedic Hospital. She also worked as a joint secretary at Bramham Moor Hunt, a bog hunt organizer.

She was a member of the Conservative Women's Advisory Committee since the 1940s . In October 1948 she called for female members of the Conservative Party to become more involved in social welfare and welfare . In 1949 she was in the County Council of County West Riding chosen (West Riding County Council). She chaired the Wessex Area Conservative Women's Advisory Committee .

In 1963 she became a member of the board of directors of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations . Lane-Fox campaigned in particular for the rights and improvement of the quality of life of physically disabled people. She was since 1963 Vice-President ( Vice-President ) of the Royal Association of Disability and Rehabilitation and President ( Chairman ) of the patients association The Phipps Respiratory Unit Patients 'Association of St Thomas' Hospital in London .

In 1976, she was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire on the annual New Year's Honors list in recognition of her commitment to disabled people ("For services to disabled people").

In the early 1980s she met Clarissa Mitchell, who later became the founder and trustee of the aid organization Hop, Skip & Jump . Lane-Fox collaborated with Mitchell on fundraising campaigns for the then Handicapped Adventure Playground Association . In July 1982, in the presence of Felicity Lane-Fox has been Hop Skip and Jump Cotswold Center in Cheltenham in the county of Gloucestershire opened.

Her memoirs were published in 2008 by Book Guild Publishing Ltd under the title Felicity Lane-Fox: Triumphing Over Disability .

She was the aunt of Robin Lane Fox and the great-aunt of his daughter Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho .

Membership in the House of Lords

On May 18, 1981, Lane-Fox was named a Life Peer and became a member of the House of Lords ; she was entitled Baroness Lane-Fox , of Bramham in the County of West Yorkshire. In the House of Lords she sat for the Conservative Party . She was Margaret Thatcher personally been proposed as Life Peeress.

On June 9, 1981, she was officially in the House of Lords introduced . She gave her inaugural address on June 23, 1981. In her address, she highlighted the importance and need for the rights of people with disabilities.

In Hansard , Felicity Lane-Fox's contributions to the House of Lords from 1981 to 1988 are documented. Lane-Fox was an active member of the House of Lords until her death; she came to the meetings in a power wheelchair . In March 1988 she spoke for the last time in the House of Lords with a speech in the context of a debate on education policy ( Employment Bill ).

Web links

• Felicity Lane-Fox at Hansard (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Fox, Felicity Lane-, Baroness Lane-Fox (1918-1988), philanthropist in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004 (beginning of article available online)
2. ↑ ^{a b} The Times , April 18, 1988, p. 18.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Baroness Lane Fox obituary in: The Yorkshire Evening Post, April 18, 1988
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Our History Official website of the aid organization Hop, Skip & Jump; Retrieved November 8, 2013
5. ↑ Beatrix Campbell: Iron Ladies: Women and the Tory Party (1987; new edition 2013), page 1953
6. ↑ ^{a b} Life Peers  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 74 kB) in: London Gazette , issue 48581, April 13, 1981, page 10  
7. ↑ Miss Felicity LANE FOX  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: London Gazette , Issue 46777, Jan. 1, 1976, p.10  
8. ↑ Felicity Lane-Fox: Triumphing Over Disability (blurb available on Google Books)
9. ↑ Felicity Lane-Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox on thepeerage.com , accessed September 12, 2016.
10. ^ Former women members of the House of Lords Official website of the Center before Advancement of Women in Politics ; Retrieved November 8, 2013
11. ^ Education Bill Text of the speech of June 23, 1981
12. ↑ Maiden speech in House of Lords Text of the inaugural address by Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho ; Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho blog ; Retrieved November 8, 2013