Lady Gardner of Parkes, who has died aged 96, was an Australian-born dentist who was created a Conservative life peer in 1981 by Margaret Thatcher; Trixie Gardner possessed the uncrushable spirit typical of her native land and was both politically uninhibited and seemingly unaware of British class barriers and class distinctions.
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