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Francis Edward Noel-Baker

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Francis Edward Noel-Baker

Birth
Kensington, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, England
Death
25 Sep 2009 (aged 89)
Euboea Island, Regional unit of Euboea, Central Greece, Greece
Burial
Euboea Island, Regional unit of Euboea, Central Greece, Greece Add to Map
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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
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


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