Sarah Foot obituary

My friend Sarah Foot, who has died aged 75 after a short illness, was a Cornish writer, social worker and much-loved member of the celebrated Foot clan. She was the daughter of the diplomat and politician Hugh Foot (later Lord Caradon), niece of the former Labour leader Michael Foot and sister of the campaigning journalist Paul Foot. She wrote 10 evocative books on the West Country. Her loving memoir of her grandfather Isaac Foot, a Plymouth builder’s son who left school at 14 but became a crusading lawyer, Liberal MP and Methodist preacher, revealed the radical influences that shaped his distinguished dynasty.Sarah was born shortly after the outbreak of the second world war, in Bath: her mother, Sylvia (nee Tod), had been evacuated from London and was on the way to Cornwall. She spent part of her childhood in Jamaica, where her father was governor. She formed lifelong ties with the country, befriending the children of her father’s driver, before going to boarding school, aged eight, at Hanford, Dorset. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2015-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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