Margaret Feeny

Margaret Feeny MBE (1917 – 2012) was the founder and first director of London's Africa Centre charity, from 1964-1978.[1]

Margaret Feeny was born in 1917, the eleventh of twelve children to a successful businessman.[2]

Feeny was General Secretary of the Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR), which became The Sword of the Spirit, and then Progressio.[3]

In 1975 she moved to Bath. She became an SDP then Liberal Democrat councillor in 1994, and mayor in 1996, but had a stroke whilst on official business to their twin town of Aix-en-Provence.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "The Africa Centre — Margaret Feeny MBE". Ftp.africacentre.org.uk. 18 January 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Margaret Mary Feeny, MBE (1917-2012)" (PDF). POrogressio.org.uk. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Tribute to Margaret Feeny". Progressio.org.uk. 19 January 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Former mayor was a strong character". Bath Chronicle. 12 January 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
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