Tuesday, November 12, 2024

The Baroness Christopher 1919-2024

Baroness Christopher, who died 11 October, 2024, aged 105, was the wife of the life peer the Baron Christopher, CBE (born 25 April, 1925).

The former Adela Joy Thompson was born in 1919, daughter of Wilfred Thompson, by his wife the former Alice Lees Fletcher; and married in 1953, the then Anthony Martin Grosvenor Christopher, son of George Russell Christopher & his wife the former Helen Kathleen Milford Rowley. Her husband is a British businessman, trade unionist, tax official, and life peer. He is the last living British parliamentarian to have served in the Second World War.

Tony Christopher was appointed CBE in 1984, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1989. He was raised to the peerage for life in 1998 as Baron Christopher, of Leckhampton in the County of Gloucestershire, taking the Labour whip. Following the death of Lord Carrington in July 2018, Christopher became the oldest sitting member of the House of Lords. In March 2021, he took a leave of absence from the House of Lords.

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