Evelyn Macleod, Baroness Macleod of Borve

[1] She was educated at Lawnside boarding-school in Great Malvern, was presented as a debutante at court and played tennis for Worcestershire.

During World War II, she worked for the London ambulance service and her husband was a Lieutenant in the Pioneer Corps.

In 1940, he was killed after his ship was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland and she later married the future politician, Iain Norman Macleod.

[2] In June 1952, Macleod was struck by meningitis and polio and was subsequently paralysed in one leg, but managed to walk with the aid of sticks.

When her husband was Secretary of State for the Colonies, she entertained various conference delegates, and served as a magistrate, founder chairwoman (later president) of the National Association of Leagues of Hospital Friends (renamed Attend since 2006) and co-founder of Crisis at Christmas in 1967.