Daphne Vera Hamilton-Fairlie, OBE, died 15 May, 2026. She was 95.
Mrs Hamilton-Fairlie was the founder of a school for dyslexic children who lost her husband in an IRA bomb outrage.
She was born Daphne Vera Hillier-Holt, 5 April, 1931, daughter of Geoffrey Noel Hillier-Holt (1893-1951), of Hope Court, Crowborough, Sussex, by his wife the former Vera Leah Henrietta Samuel (1893-1987), daughter of Sir Edward Levien Samuel, 2nd Baronet (1862-1937).
She married in Jan, 1953, at Uckfield, Sussex, the Australian-born Gordon Hamilton-Fairlie, DM, FRCP (born 20 April, 1930), of Campden Hill Square, London. Her husband was a professor of medical oncology. Hamilton-Fairlie was born and raised in Australia, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he studied and worked. He was killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb intended to assassinate Sir Hugh Fraser, on 23 October, 1975.
Mrs Hamilton-Fairlie, was appointed OBE in 1990. She leaves issue, a son, Geoffrey (born 1961), and three daughters, Diana (born 1956), Sarah (born 1958), and Fiona (born 1963).
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