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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.〔Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 1 March 2013 )〕〔''The Times'', 18 April 1988, p. 18.〕 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.〔 In the 1976 New Year Honours list she was appointed OBE for services to disabled people. 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.〔 She was the aunt of Robin Lane Fox and great-aunt of his daughter Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Felicity Lane-Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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