Francis Edward Noel-Baker

Francis Edward Noel-Baker, politician and landowner: born Kensington, London 7 January 1920; educated Westminster School and King's College Cambridge; War service in Royal Tank Regiment and Intelligence Corps; MP for Brentford and Chiswick 1945-50, MP for Swindon 1955–1969; married 1957 Barbro (Barbara) Sonander (died 2004; four sons, one daughter, one son deceased); d. Euboea, Greece 25 September 2009 buried in Euboea according to the rites of the Greek Orthodox church http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/francis-noel-baker-labour-politician-who-clashed-with-the-party-over-cyprus-and-helped-create-1795188.html Francis Noel-Baker: Labour politician who clashed with the party over Cyprus and helped create Amnesty International For the last 40 years of his life Noel-Baker lived on the Greek island of Euboea, where he had inherited a huge estate from Frank Noel, his paternal grandfather. He set out to be a model landlord and forestry owner. George David, a leading Greek businessman and philanthropist to the University of Edinburgh, where he had been a student, recalled that in the late 1950s he had travelled to Euboea and asked why it was that some parts of the forest were in a much better state than the rest. Told that the good part belonged to the Noel-Baker family, who – for the first time anywhere in Greece – had brought in professional management. Tuesday 29 September 2009 23:00 BST Kymi Cemetery is only listing in Euboea, interred on family property Candili http://www.mygola.com/euboea-d1146091/cemetery m1.1947 Ann Lavina Saunders b. 1928-1956 On his father: In June 1915, Philip Baker married Irene Noel, a field hospital nurse in East Grinstead, subsequently adopting the hyphenated name Noel-Baker in 1921 by letters patent. His wife was a friend of Virginia Woolf. Their only son, Francis Noel-Baker, also became a Labour MP and served together with his father in the Commons. Their marriage, however was not a success and Noel-Baker's mistress from 1936 was Megan Lloyd George , daughter of the former Liberal Party leader David Lloyd George , herself a Liberal and later Labour MP. The relationship ended when Irene died in 1956. Following Noel-Baker's death in Westminster, aged 92, he was buried alongside his wife in Heyshott, West Sussex