Audrey Hylton-Foster, Baroness Hylton-Foster
The Baroness Hylton-Foster | |
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| Convenor of the Crossbench Peers | |
| In office 1974–1995 | |
| Preceded by | The Lord Strang |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Weatherill |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| In office 7 December 1965 – 31 October 2002 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Audrey Pellew Clifton Brown 19 May 1908 |
| Died | 31 October 2002 (aged 94) |
| Political party | Crossbench |
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Audrey Pellew Hylton-Foster, Baroness Hylton-Foster DBE (née Brown; 19 May 1908 – 31 October 2002), was the daughter of Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st Viscount Ruffside, and Violet Cicely Kathleen Wollaston. She married Sir Harry Braustyn Hylton-Foster, who had started a distinguished career at the Bar in 1931; they had no children.
Her great-grandparents were Charles Rowe, who was mixed race, due to being of African descent, and his Lima-born wife Sarah. Born in Simla, India, she was educated at St George's, Ascot, and Ivy House, Wimbledon. Both her father and husband served as Speaker of the House of Commons.