[2] Her family was well off by the standards of the time: her father was a district inspector in the RIC and they lived at Oxmanton Hall in the centre of Birr.

One of her maternal aunts, Hilda Webb,[3] was an active suffragette and a young Fay was taken to visit her when she was imprisoned in Holloway gaol.

[4] Taylour was educated at Miss Fletcher's boarding school in Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, and in 1919 went to Alexandra College, then in Earlsfort Terrace, where the Conrad Hotel now stands.

Then, in April 1928, on the opening of the new Leeds (Post Hill) speedway track, where she took part in a couple of races she changed course, favouring this latest form of motorcycling sports, which was very popular, more spectacular and it paid better.

Her motorcycle racing career came to an end when women were banned from competing in speedway, in the UK and then in Australia and New Zealand.

After this particular race, in excitement she made several more very fast laps of the track, not stopping until a flagman stepped out in front of her 2.6-litre Monza Alfa Romeo.

[1] Taylour went to India in 1931 where she won her first major car race, setting a new course record for the Calcutta to Ranchi event.

[2] In 1934, she came home to Ireland and won the Leinster Trophy road race, in a front wheel drive Adler Trumpf.

Her last major race before the Second World War was with a Riley in the 1938 South African Grand Prix, where she received a hero's welcome for her spirited driving, even though she was unplaced.

[7] Like Mosley, his wife, Diana Mitford and many other members of the party she was interned in Britain between 1 June 1940 and 5 October 1943 under Defence Regulation 18B, as a danger to the state.

She was held without trial, first at Holloway gaol, where her aunt had once been imprisoned for suffragette activities, then in 1942 in a camp on the Isle of Man.