Xenia Field

Xenia Noelle Field

Field was born on 25 December 1894 at Secunderabad, India, where her father Thomas Hermann Lowinsky was general manager of the Hyderabad (Deccan) Co coal mines.^[1] On their return to England, the family lived at Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire.^[1] Field was a pupil at Heathfield School, and then attended finishing school in Paris.^[1] Her father was a keen gardener, who won a Royal Horticultural Society gold medal.^[1]

Career

In

With Morrison's support, she was elected as a Labour member of London County Council in 1946, representing Paddington North electoral division.^[1][2] She stood, unsuccessfully, for parliament, first at North Somerset in 1950 and then at Colchester in 1951.^[1] She also sat as a magistrate, and became interested in prison reform.^[1] She joined the breakaway Social Democratic Party in 1982, shortly after their formation.^[1]

She used a bequest from her father to establish a

She married Dr. James Field, a much older man, in 1936; he died only five years later.[1]

Death

She died at Goldsborough Nursing Home, Ladbroke Road, Kensington, London on 24 January 1998, from a stroke.^[1] She was 103.

Bibliography

• Window Box Gardening.
• Growing Bulbs in the House. 1954.
• The Housewife Book of House Plants. The Garden City Press Limited. 1956.
• Under Lock and Key: a Study of Women in Prison. 1963.
• Indoor Plants. Paul Hamlyn Limited. 1966.
• Colorful World of Roses. The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited. 1969.
• Book of Garden Flowers. The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited. 1971.
• Gardening From Scratch. The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited. 1973.
• Gardening Week by Week. Crescent Books. 1975.

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