Background
Born into a working-class family Heather Renwick Brown at Birchington, Kent, she was the daughter of Squadron Leader John Renwick Brown, Distinguished Flying Cross, a former Scottish miner and newsagent.
Born into a working-class family Heather Renwick Brown at Birchington, Kent, she was the daughter of Squadron Leader John Renwick Brown, Distinguished Flying Cross, a former Scottish miner and newsagent.
Girton College; The Abbey School.
Brown was persuaded to have a career in the Royal Air Force after the war. She was educated at The Abbey School, Reading, where a classics techer encouraged her to apply to university. She had developed a mellifluous voice, rich with charm, which she put to good use at business school, and later on when talking to parents.
She spent her time at university touring Sweden with an acting troupe doing Shakespeare, and then at parties with men like Norman Street John Stevas and Julian Slade.
In 1963, they returned to London and she became the headmistress of Francis Holland School from 1965 to 1974 and High Mistress of Street Paul"s Girls" School from 1974 to 1989. On 21 May 1990, she was created a life peer as Baroness Brigstocke, of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and sat as a Conservative.
She was part of many educational societies during the 1990s and was the founding chairman of Home-Start International. She was appointed a Governess of Imperial College, London.
Baroness Brigstocke died in 2004, aged 74 in Athens, Greece, in a road traffic accident, when she tried to cross a badly-lit road with her assistant Rosemary Magid after a charity meeting.
Both women were killed by a speeding driver.