Diana Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon

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Diana Josceline Barbara Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon (7 July 1919–27 November 1992) was a British life peer.

She was created Baroness Airey of Abingdon, of Abingdon in the County of Oxford on August 6, 1979, a few months after her husband was killed, as she was the widow of Airey Neave (January 23, 1916 - March 30, 1979), a British Conservative MP for Abingdon and a prominent politician. He was killed when a mercury-tilt based car bomb exploded under his car as he drove out of the Palace of Westminster car park. The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) claimed responsibility for his murder.