Margaret Feeny
Margaret Mary Feeny was the founder and first director of London's Africa Centre charity, from 1964 to 1978.Biography
Margaret Feeny was born in 1917, the eleventh of twelve children to a successful businessman.
Feeny was General Secretary of the Sword of the Spirit, which became the Catholic Institute for International Relations,and then Progressio.
In 1975 she moved to Bath, Somerset. She became an SDP then Liberal Democrat councillor in 1994, and mayor of Bath in 1996, but had a stroke while on official business to their twin town of Aix-en-Provence.
She died in early 2012 aged 94 and her funeral took place at St John's, South Parade, Bath, on 18 January.
