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
  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.

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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