Barbara Mary Stirk

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  - _UID 14C0E3AB030C4B158178A2FD15361C401067
    
    CHAN.DATE 14 Jul 2007
    
    CHAN.DATE.TIME 18:19
    
    EVEN.TYPE Cause of death (Facts Pg)
    
    EVEN.DATE 1998
    
    EVEN cancer

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Lady Ingrow, the wife of former Timothy Taylor brewery head Lord Ingrow, has died aged 74 from cancer.
The former Keighley mayoress had an eventful life even before meeting the man who became one of the town's most foremost figures.
As a young woman she helped rescue spies from behind the Iron Curtain following the Second World War.
And over the next few decades she was active in several charities including the RNLI, NSPCC, British Legion and Meals on Wheels.
Lady Ingrow also supported her husband's public career as a magistrate, mayor, Lord Lieutenant and high-ranking Conservative Party member.
Her daughters Anne and Diana, who live in Wetherby, this week spoke of their mother as a very kind, loving, elegant and thoughtful woman.
Diana said: "She got on with everyone and always had time for them. She was respected by people from all corners of life."
Lady Ingrow was born Barbara Mary Stirk in Keighley in 1923 and, apart from studies at Malvern Girls' College, lived all her life in the town.
She spent the war in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, attached to Special Operations, and at war's end served in Czechoslovakia helping British agents escape.
Lady Ingrow met her husband through friends, marrying in 1949, and gave birth to Anne and Diana in the early 1950s.
For about 20 years she was a director of her husband's family firm, the Ingrow-based brewery Timothy Taylors.
She became Lady Taylor when her husband was knighted in 1972 and a decade later, after he became a life peer, she became Lady Ingrow.
Her daughters this week told how Lady Ingrow joked that she had to spend her wedding anniversary each year at the Conservative Party Conference.
But they said their mother gave strong support to her husband in his public and working life.
Lady Ingrow, who had four grandchildren, was also a keen gardener, antique collector and supporter of the Sea Cadets.

_UID	14C0E3AB030C4B158178A2FD15361C401067
CHAN.DATE	14 Jul 2007
CHAN.DATE.TIME	18:19
EVEN.TYPE	Cause of death (Facts Pg)
EVEN.DATE	1998
EVEN	cancer

Barbara Mary Stirk

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