Audrey Hylton-Foster, Baroness Hylton-Foster
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Audrey Hylton-Foster, Baroness Hylton-Foster DBE (May 19, 1908 – October 31, 2002), was the daughter of Clifton Brown, 1st Viscount Ruffside, and the wife of Sir Harry Hylton-Foster.
Audrey Pellew Clifton Brown was the daughter of Colonel Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st and last Viscount Ruffside, and Violet Cicely Kathleen Wollaston. She married Sir Harry Braustyn Hylton Hylton-Foster in 1931.
Both her father and husband served as Speaker of the House of Commons. After her husband's death in office in 1965, Audrey was given a life peerage as Baroness Hylton-Foster, of the City of Westminster, in his honour. She became an active member of the House of Lords who served for many years as Convenor of the Crossbench peers.
She died on 31 October 2002, aged 94.
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