On This Day

February 9, 1999

Death of Baroness Robson of Kiddington

Inga-Stina Robson was born in Stockholm and had a career in the Swedish Foreign Service. While stationed in London she married Lawrence Robson, a Liberal candidate and their home in Kiddington, Oxfordshire became a centre for entertaining and later a training establishment for the Liberal Party. Stina Robson chaired the Womens’ Liberal Federation and the National Liberal Club. She contested four parliamentary elections without success and was made a life peer in 1974.