The Baroness Nickson, who died 22 March, 2026, aged 90, was the wife of the Baron Nickson, KBE (born 27 November 1929), a businessman, & a former crossbench peer and a former President of the Confederation of British Industry. He was Chairman of the Clydesdale Bank, Scottish & Newcastle, Scottish Enterprise and the Government's Senior Salaries Review Body.
She was the former Eira Govett, born in Westminster, January, 1936, a daughter of John Romaine Govett (1897-1956), of Manor House, Newton Stacey, Hampshire, and his wife the former Angela Mary Mostyn Pritchard (1909-1979); and was three times married, firstly, 6 Aug, 1955, to John Robert Findlay (1927-2016), scion of that landed gentry family of Findlay of Boturich, son of James Buchanan Findlay, CBE, of Carnell, Ayrshire, by his wife the former Mary Sancroft Findlay-Hamilton, scion of that landed gentry family; married 2ndly, 1983, John Drysdale, and married 3rdly, in 2013, the life peer the Baron Nickson.
She leaves three sons from her first marriage, James Anthony (born 14 Oct, 1957), Michael Andrew (born 22 March, 1960), and Alasdair John (born 13 May, 1963).
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