Dame Adelaide Baillieu Doughty DBE (née Shackell; 2 December 1908 – 12 August 1986) was an Australian-British political figure.
She was accepted by Melbourne University, but on the suggestion of her cousin Clive Latham Baillieu, travelled to England where she entered St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1928, graduating with a degree in Modern Greats.
[2] In 1951 her husband was elected Member of Parliament for East Surrey, and Doughty began to work for the Conservative Party.
She also served as Vice-Chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations from 1964, where she supported Edward Heath's election as party leader, and became Chairman in 1967.
[7] Doughty also served as a governor of the Skinners' Company's School for Girls in 1951, as director of the National Institute for Housecraft from 1966, and was a member of the Grand Council of the Cancer Research Campaign from 1974.