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Tuesday, July 26, 2022

The Baroness Finsberg [died 2022]

 The Baroness Finsberg, who died 15 July, 2022, was the widow of the Conservative politician and life peer the Baron Finsberg [1926-96].

She was the former [Yvonne] Elizabeth Wright, daughter of Albert Wright, of Strabane, County Donegal, and married firstly, in 1967, Michael Z. Sarch, by whom she had two sons, Patrick Albert J Sarch [born 1969]  & Adam Ferdinand Sarch [born 1970]. She married 2ndly, in 1990, as his second wife, Geoffrey Finsberg, MP, MBE [born 13 June, 1926], then Conservative MP for Hampstead & Highgate. Finsberg retired from the Commons in 1992 and was in that year elevated to the peerage for life as Baron Finsberg, of Hampstead, in the London Borough of Camden. He died in Stockholm, 8 Oct, 1996, aged 70, without issue.

A Memorial Service for Lady Finsberg is to take place at St Mary's Church, Fairford, Gloucestershire, on 28 July, 2022.

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