Hon Lady Waley-Cohen 1920-2013

[Michael Rhodes]

_.The Hon Lady Waley-Cohen, who died 30 June, 2013, aged 93, was the widow of Sir Bernard Nathaniel Waley-Cohen, 1st Baronet (1914-91)who was Lord Mayor of London 1960-61, and a scion of the Barons Nathan (B, UK, 1940). 

She was born the Hon Joyce Constance Ina Nathan, 20 Jan, 1920, daughter of Harry Louis Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan (1889-1963), by his wife the former Eleanor Joan Clare Stettauer, and married Bernard Waley-Cohen, 21 Dec, 1943. 

Lady Waley-Cohen was MA (Girton Coll, Cambridge), a JP, Chairman Westminster Children's Hosp 1952-68, and Gordon Hosp 1961-68, &c. She was mother of two sons, Sir Stephen, the 2nd Baronet, Robert Waley-Cohen, and 2 daughters, Rosalind and Eleanor. Funeral at Golders Green Crematorium, 4 July.

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[Michael Rhodes]

Lady Waley-Cohen's Daily Telegraph obituary:-

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10250857/Lady-Waley-Cohen.html