Margaret Feeny
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[]
- ^ "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.
- ^ Tom Craigmyle. "Margaret Mary Feeny, MBE (1917–2012)" (PDF). Progressio.org.uk. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ From Sword to Ploughshare. Sword of the Spirit to Catholic Institute for International Relations 1940–1980 by Michael Walsh
- ^ "Tribute to Margaret Feeny". Progressio.org.uk. 19 January 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ "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).
- 1917 births
- 2012 deaths
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Liberal Democrats (UK) councillors
- Women councillors in England