Ann Hazel Spokes Symonds (10 November 1925 – 27 December 2019) was a British author and former Lord Mayor of Oxford.
She entered St Anne's College, Oxford in 1944, where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics,[3] obtaining her B.A.
[5] She served as Lord Mayor of Oxford in 1976/77 and also as the Chairman of Oxfordshire County Council between 1981 and 1983.
[4][6] Spokes-Symonds chaired Age Concern England from 1983 to 1986.
[7] She made a donation towards a statue of Alfred Russel Wallace which has been erected at the Natural History Museum.