Evelyn Fox
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Dame Evelyn Emily Marian Fox, DBE (1874 – 1955) was a noted British health worker, specializing in mental health and epilepsy.[1]
Fox, who was General Secretary of the National Association for Mental Health (NAMH – now known as MIND) in the late 1940s, along with Tyler Fox (no relation), Medical Director of the Epilepsy Colony at Lingfield, Surrey and Irene Gairdner, a social science graduate from the London School of Economics, were the driving forces for the creation of the British Epilepsy Association (BEA).
[edit] Legacy
Dame Evelyn Fox School, Blackburn is named in her honour.[2] [3][4] The school closed in 2000.
[edit] References
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography profile
- ^ Dame Evelyn Fox school
- ^ Dame Evelyn Fox School statistics
- ^ [1]
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