Heather Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke
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The Baroness Brigstocke | |
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Born | Heather Renwick Brown 2 September 1929 UK |
Died | 30 April 2004 Athens, Greece | (aged 74)
Occupation(s) | Schoolteacher Life Peer (Conservative Party) |
Spouse(s) | Geoffrey Brigstocke (died 1974); 4 children Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths (2000-2004; her death) |
Children | 4 (by first marriage) |
Heather Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke, Baroness Griffiths, CBE (2 September 1929 – 30 April 2004) was a British schoolteacher, academic and Conservative Life Peer.
Life
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She was born into a working-class family as Heather Renwick Brown in
She was educated at The Abbey School, Reading, where a classics teacher encouraged her to apply to university. She won a state scholarship [1] to Girton College, Cambridge, later switching to the Archaeology and Anthropology course.
Brigstocke was a talented stage actress, but her parents refused to allow her to pursue her wishes. 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 performing Shakespeare, and then at parties with the likes of Norman St John Stevas and Julian Slade. She was the first woman to win the Winchester Reading Prize, leaving with a lower second degree.
After a short period as a management trainee at Selfridges, she won a classics teacher's job at the independent Francis Holland School, and then at Godolphin and Latymer in Hammersmith.
In 1952, she married Geoffrey Brigstocke, a civil servant and diplomat, and former
In 1961, she travelled with her husband to his post in
On 21 May 1990, she was created a
On 22 January 2000, Lady Brigstocke, widowed since her husband had died in 1974 on Turkish Airlines Flight 981, married the fellow widower peer, Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths, the law lord who had an interest in fishing. Brigstocke had got to know him when his wife, Evelyn, was chairman of the St Paul's Girls' School governors, and she had often stayed with them on the Isle of Wight.[2]
In the Millennium Honours list she was made
She was chairman of Landau Forte College, in Derby, from 1993, and enjoyed being an honorary bencher of the Inner Temple.[2]
Death
Baroness Brigstocke died in 2004, aged 74, in
Her body was taken home to her children and executors at 26 Edwardes Square, W8.[6]
References
- ^ "Baroness Brigstocke". The Independent. 7 May 2004. Archived from the original on 9 May 2022.
- ^ a b c Whitehorn, Katharine (4 May 2004). "Obituary: Baroness Brigstocke of Kensington". The Guardian.
- ^ "No. 52148". The London Gazette. 24 May 1990. p. 9601.
- ^ "Imperial College London | 502 Bad gateway". Imperial College London.
- ^ "Diplomatic and Commonwealth". BBC. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
- ^ "Heather BRIGSTOCKE". thegazette.co.uk.