Heather Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke

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name = Heather Renwick Brigstocke


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Heather Renwick Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke, CBE (2 September 1929 – 30 April 2004) was a classics teacher.

Heather Brown was born in Reading, Berkshire, the daughter of Squadron Leader John Renwick Brown, DFC, RAF and was educated at The Abbey School, Reading and Girton College, Cambridge. In 1952 she married the diplomat Geoffrey Brigstocke and they had four children, three sons and one daughter.

From 1951 to 1953, she was classics mistress of Francis Holland School and in 1962 travelled with her husband to his post in Washington D.C., where she was Latin teacher at National Cathedral School. In 1963, they returned to London and Heather became the headmistress of Francis Holland School from 1965 to 1974 and High Mistress of St Paul's Girls' School from 1974 to 1989. On 21 May 1990, she was created a life peer as Baroness Brigstocke, of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and sat as a Conservative. She was part of many educational societies during the 1990s and was the founding Chairman of Home-Start International.

Her first husband had died in 1974 on Turkish Airlines Flight 981 and on 22 January 2000, she married fellow peer, Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths. Baroness Brigstocke died in 2004, aged 74 in Athens, a victim of a road traffic accident.

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*cite web | url= http://www.thepeerage.com/p15226.htm#i152251| title= thePeerage| accessdate= 2006-11-30