MARX, Dame Clare Lucy DBE DL (Mrs FANE) (1954-2022)
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colinp
Nov 29, 2022, 4:40:10 AM11/29/22
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Dame Lucy Marx former President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Chair of the General Medical Council (first woman in each case) has died. Her death was reported by the RCS on 27 November 2022. She was appointed DBE in the 2018 New Year Honours.
She m 1989 Andrew William Mildmay FANE OBE b 1949, scion of the Earls of Westmorland, being descended from the yr brother of the 8th Earl
Richard R
Nov 30, 2022, 3:32:55 AM11/30/22
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Obit in the Times of 30 Nov 2022
E X T R A C T
Dame Clare Marx obituary
First woman to be elected president of the Royal College of Surgeons who sought to root out sexism and expand surgical training
...Clare Lucy Marx was born in Coventry in 1954, the daughter of Brenda (née Johnston), a Cumbrian teacher and magistrate, and her husband Francis Marx, a German-Jewish industrial chemist whose family had fled the Nazis in 1933.
When a hotel in Coventry refused to take a guest because of the colour of his skin, her mother reported the matter to the local race relations board. “Consequently, our house was daubed with shocking slogans . . . yet in the face of this, my mother was totally solid,” Marx recalled...
...Away from the operating theatre, Marx had a run-in with the tabloid press when she was revealed to have been one of several lovers of Steve Norris, a married Conservative MP.
In 1989, however, she married Andrew Fane, whom she had met when they were neighbours in London and with whom she enjoyed holidays in the Highlands or the Alps. He survives her; she had no children.
They lived in Suffolk, where she joined Ipswich Hospital, developing an interest in hip and knee replacement and trauma...
...She stepped down in July last year after receiving a diagnosis of incurable pancreatic cancer. “Since receiving this news, I’ve been reminded once again of the importance and power of kindness in everything we do as doctors,” she wrote in a public letter.
More recently she became a German citizen, the result of her father having his citizenship restored just before his 100th birthday, and six months ago she dug the first shovel of earth for the Dame Clare Marx Building, a multimillion-pound orthopaedic centre in Colchester that will open in 2024...
Dame Clare Marx, orthopaedic surgeon, was born on March 15, 1954. She died of pancreatic cancer on November 27, 2022, aged 68
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dame-clare-marx-obituary-zbhk90nrm
E X T R A C T
Dame Clare Marx obituary
First woman to be elected president of the Royal College of Surgeons who sought to root out sexism and expand surgical training
...Clare Lucy Marx was born in Coventry in 1954, the daughter of Brenda (née Johnston), a Cumbrian teacher and magistrate, and her husband Francis Marx, a German-Jewish industrial chemist whose family had fled the Nazis in 1933.
When a hotel in Coventry refused to take a guest because of the colour of his skin, her mother reported the matter to the local race relations board. “Consequently, our house was daubed with shocking slogans . . . yet in the face of this, my mother was totally solid,” Marx recalled...
...Away from the operating theatre, Marx had a run-in with the tabloid press when she was revealed to have been one of several lovers of Steve Norris, a married Conservative MP.
In 1989, however, she married Andrew Fane, whom she had met when they were neighbours in London and with whom she enjoyed holidays in the Highlands or the Alps. He survives her; she had no children.
They lived in Suffolk, where she joined Ipswich Hospital, developing an interest in hip and knee replacement and trauma...
...She stepped down in July last year after receiving a diagnosis of incurable pancreatic cancer. “Since receiving this news, I’ve been reminded once again of the importance and power of kindness in everything we do as doctors,” she wrote in a public letter.
More recently she became a German citizen, the result of her father having his citizenship restored just before his 100th birthday, and six months ago she dug the first shovel of earth for the Dame Clare Marx Building, a multimillion-pound orthopaedic centre in Colchester that will open in 2024...
Dame Clare Marx, orthopaedic surgeon, was born on March 15, 1954. She died of pancreatic cancer on November 27, 2022, aged 68
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dame-clare-marx-obituary-zbhk90nrm
Richard R
Dec 2, 2022, 3:23:09 AM12/2/22
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From the Telegraph of 2 Dec 2022:
Dame Clare Marx DBE DL, also known as Mrs Andrew Fane. Clare died
peacefully on Sunday 27th November at home surrounded by family. There
will be no funeral as Clare had donated her body to medical research. In
the spring there will be a service of celebration of her life in
Woodbridge – date to be announced. No flowers please. Donations, if
desired, to Pancreatic Cancer UK.
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