Audrey Hylton-Foster, Baroness Hylton-Foster

Audrey Pellew Hylton-Foster, Baroness Hylton-Foster DBE (née Brown; 19 May 1908 31 October 2002), was the daughter of Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st Viscount Ruffside, and Violet Cicely Kathleen Wollaston. She married Sir Harry Braustyn Hylton-Foster, who had started a distinguished career at the Bar in 1931; they had no children.

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Hylton-Foster
DBE
Convenor of the Crossbench Peers
In office
1974–1995
Preceded byThe Lord Strang
Succeeded byThe Lord Weatherill
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
7 December 1965  31 October 2002
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born(1908-05-19)19 May 1908
Died31 October 2002(2002-10-31) (aged 94)
Political partyCrossbench
SpouseSir Harry Braustyn Hylton-Foster

Born in Simla, India, she was educated at St George's, Ascot, and Ivy House, Wimbledon. Both her father and husband served as Speaker of the House of Commons.

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