Audrey Hylton-Foster, Baroness Hylton-Foster

She married Sir Harry Braustyn Hylton-Foster, who had started a distinguished career at the Bar in 1931; they had no children.

Her great-grandparents were Charles Rowe, who was mixed race, due to being of African descent, and his Lima-born wife Sarah.

[citation needed] After her husband's death in office in 1965, she was created a life peer as Baroness Hylton-Foster, of the City of Westminster on 7 December 1965.

[3] Despite her prior objections to women politicians, she became an active member of the House of Lords, and for many years served as Convenor of the Crossbench peers.

[5] It was granted in consideration of the service provided by her husband, Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, as Speaker of the House of Commons between October 1959 and September 1965, when he died in office.