Margaret Feeny

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Margaret Mary Feeny MBE (1917 – 3 January 2012) was the founder and first director of London's Africa Centre charity, from 1964 to 1978.[1]

Biography[]

Margaret Feeny was born in 1917, the eleventh of twelve children to a successful businessman.[2]

Feeny was General Secretary of the Sword of the Spirit, which became the Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR),[3]and then Progressio.[4]

In 1975 she moved to Bath, Somerset. She became an SDP then Liberal Democrat councillor in 1994, and mayor of Bath in 1996, but had a stroke while on official business to their twin town of Aix-en-Provence.[5]

She died in early 2012 aged 94 and her funeral took place at St John's, South Parade, Bath, on 18 January.

References[]

  1. ^ "The Africa Centre — Margaret Feeny MBE". Ftp.africacentre.org.uk. 18 January 2012. Archived from the original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  2. ^ Tom Craigmyle. "Margaret Mary Feeny, MBE (1917–2012)" (PDF). Progressio.org.uk. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  3. ^ From Sword to Ploughshare. Sword of the Spirit to Catholic Institute for International Relations 1940–1980 by Michael Walsh
  4. ^ "Tribute to Margaret Feeny". Progressio.org.uk. 19 January 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  5. ^ "Former mayor was a strong character". Bath Chronicle. 12 January 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2016.[permanent dead link]

External links[]

Images of Margaret Feeney: "Margaret Feeney, 2 February 1983"; "Margaret Feeney outside the Guildhall, Bath 1996?", Bath In Time (online images).

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