Evelyn Fox
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Dame Evelyn Emily Marian Fox, DBE (1874–1955) was a noted British health worker, specializing in mental health and epilepsy.[1] She studied history at Somerville College, Oxford.[2]
Fox, who was General Secretary of the National Association for Mental Health (NAMH – now known as MIND) in the late 1940s, along with Tyler Fox (no relation), Medical Director of the Epilepsy Colony at Lingfield, Surrey and Irene Gairdner, a social science graduate from the London School of Economics, were the driving forces for the creation of the British Epilepsy Association (BEA).
Legacy
[edit]Dame Evelyn Fox School, Blackburn is named in her honour.[3] The school closed in 2000.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography profile
- ^ "24 LSE women in 1918". London School of Economics. 28 March 2018.
- ^ Dame Evelyn Fox school, dfes.gov.uk; accessed 5 April 2016.
- ^ Dame Evelyn Fox School statistics Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, lancashire.gov.uk; accessed 5 April 2016.
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