Background
Jane Emily Goward was born in Wakefield in Yorkshire in 1964, the sixth of ten children of a dentist.
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Jane Tomlinson
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During the next six years, Tomlinson completed the London Marathon three times, the London Triathlon twice, the New York Marathon once and cycled across Europe and the United States.
Career
Having had treatment for breast cancer in 1991, aged 26. The disease returned in 2000 throughout her body. Jane Tomlinson died in 2007, aged 43.
When she was aged 11, the family emigrated to Australia but returned after three years.
In 1990, Tomlinson applied to study Mathematics at the University of Leeds. However, when she found a lump in her breast and had a lumpectomy, she enrolled instead at Leeds General Infirmary and trained as a radiographer.
They later had a son, Steven. Qualifying in 1993, Tomlinson later studied to postgraduate level and became a paediatric radiographer.
Three years after having a lumpectomy the cancer returned and she had a second mastectomy, and two rounds of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
In 2000, Jane Tomlinson was told that the cancer had spread to her bones and lungs, and was given about 12 months to live. Jane raised over £1.85 million through a series of gruelling challenges including several long-distance bike rides, marathons, triathlons and a full Ironman triathlon. Since her death the charity that she founded has announced a new fundraising target of £5million.
As of February 2015 £7.6 million has been raised.
In July and August 2006, Tomlinson spent nine weeks cycling 3,800 miles across the United States, raising £250,000. This was her final athletic challenge.
Having published The Luxury of Time in 2005, she released the second volume of her memoirs You Can"t Take lieutenant With You in 2006. In January 2007, Mike and Jane Tomlinson launched Jane Tomlinson"s Run Foreign All, a 10 km charity run that took place in June that year.
Having had four courses of chemotherapy, she developed chronic heart disease.
Having been elevated to a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in June 2007, Jane Tomlinson died in Street Gemma"s Hospice, Leeds, West Yorkshire less than three months later on 3 September. Her Requiem Mass, which was conducted by the Bishop of Leeds, Arthur Roche, was held at the Roman Catholic Leeds Cathedral on 14 September 2007. Later that day she was cremated in a private family ceremony.
On 15 November 2007 Tomlinson"s ten-year-old son, Steven, collected her Commander of the Order of the British Empire from The Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace.
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