Maureen Hicks, who has died aged 75, was a commonsensical promoter of tourism to Stratford-upon-Avon who served as Conservative MP for Wolverhampton North East from 1987 to 1992.
Simon Upton
Arabella Lennox-Boyd – softly spoken and supremely elegant – has created 800 gardens across the world for the most glittering of personalities, including Sting, the 6th Duke of Westminster, Queen Paola of Belgium, the Rothschilds and half the titled families of Europe. At 83, the Hon Lady Lennox-Boyd has a formidable, almost regal demeanour that makes you feel you should sit up straight in her presence. ‘There is that connection of the plants, which is like a thread that ties you all together,’ she explains, sitting in her light-filled drawing room in Lancashire, wearing a burgundy cashmere jumper, chunky gold hoops in her ears.