Background
She was born in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, the daughter of Edward Lane-Fox, who was brother of George Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley.
politician Member of the House of Lords
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 the 1976 New Year Honours list she was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire 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.
In 1963 she became a member of the executive of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. Using an electric wheelchair, she was an active member of the House of Lords until her death.