Margaret Feeny

Margaret Feeny was born in 1917, the eleventh of twelve children of a businessman.^[2]

Feeny was General Secretary of the Sword of the Spirit, which became the Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR),^[3] and then Progressio.^[4] She conceptualized the Africa Centre, London, and organised support from both Africans and Britons to bring the idea to fruition.^[5] The Africa Centre was registered as a charity in 1961, and in 1964 opened to the public at 38 King Street, Covent Garden,^[6][7] with Feeny as its first director. She remained in that role from 1963 until 1978.^[1]

In 1975, she moved to Bath, Somerset. She became a Social Democratic Party then Liberal Democrat councillor in 1994, and Mayor of Bath in 1996, but had a stroke while on official business to their twin town of Aix-en-Provence.^[8] She died in early 2012 aged 94 and her funeral took place at St John's Church, South Parade, Bath, on 18 January.^{[citation needed]}

Images of Margaret Feeney: "Margaret Feeney, 2 February 1983"; "Margaret Feeney outside the Guildhall, Bath 1996?", Bath In Time (online images).