PARK of MONMOUTH, The Rt Hon Baroness (Daphne Margaret Sybil Désirée PARK CMG OBE) 1921-2010
Richard R
She was the dau of John Alexander PARK and neither she nor her father
ever married (see obit extract below)
The Times obit [Secret intelligence service officer]:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7076092.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1
And The Independent's obit:
About Daphne Park little or nothing was ordinary. Although she was
actually born in Britain, within weeks she was on her way to Africa,
where her father, John Alexander, who never actually married her
mother, was a gold prospector. Until she was three she was trekked
around remote places in the gold field areas. John Alexander and her
mother Doreen Gwynneth Park, a stoutly Welsh lady from Monmouth (which
Daphne took as her territorial title when her friend Margaret
Thatcher, a fellow Somervillian, raised her to the House of Lords),
came back to England fleetingly for her brother to be born
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/baroness-park-diplomat-and-intelligence-service-officer-who-served-in-moscow-hanoi-africa-and-mongolia-1928777.html
Richard R
When Daphne Park was revealed as the face of British Intelligence by
Panorama in 1993, many were surprised to find that the James Bond of
the public imagination bore a greater resemblance to Miss Marple: a
woman whose genial, maiden aunt exterior belied a doughty, pugnacious
character. Her drink of choice was Earl Grey tea, "stirred not
shaken", as she put it...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/7521245/Baroness-Park-of-Monmouth.html
On Mar 27, 4:10 pm, Richard R <r_rut...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> PARK OF MONMOUTH, BARONESS (Park) (Life Baroness cr UK 1990 ext 2010)
>
> She was the dau of John Alexander PARK and neither she nor her father
> ever married (see obit extract below)
>
> The Times obit [Secret intelligence service officer]:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7076092.ec...
>
> And The Independent's obit:
> About Daphne Park little or nothing was ordinary. Although she was
> actually born in Britain, within weeks she was on her way to Africa,
> where her father, John Alexander, who never actually married her
> mother, was a gold prospector. Until she was three she was trekked
> around remote places in the gold field areas. John Alexander and her
> mother Doreen Gwynneth Park, a stoutly Welsh lady from Monmouth (which
> Daphne took as her territorial title when her friend Margaret
> Thatcher, a fellow Somervillian, raised her to the House of Lords),
> came back to England fleetingly for her brother to be bornhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/baroness-park-diplomat-a...