Background
Her father founded the Museum of Oxford in 1974.
Her father founded the Museum of Oxford in 1974.
Ann Spokes-Symonds is an author and former Lord Mayor of Oxford. She is a writer on the history of Oxford. She entered Street Anne"s College, Oxford in 1944, where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
She now holds a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford.
She is a trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust, having first become a trustee in 1959. She served as Lord Mayor of Oxford in 1976/77 and also as the Chairman of Oxfordshire County Council 1981-1983.
She made a donation towards a statue of Alfred Russel Wallace which has been erected at the Natural History Museum.