Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn

Margaret Rosalind Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn, JP (née Hando) (5 April 1916 – 8 June 2010), known as Lady Delacourt-Smith from 1967, was a British Labour politician.

Biography

Margaret Rosalind Hando was born in 1916. Her father, Fred Hando, was an artist, writer and headmaster. Hando married Charles Smith and they changed their name by deed poll so her husband became Charles George Percy Delacourt-Smith.

She was created a life peer as Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn, of Alteryn in the County of Gwent on 5 July 1974. She died on 8 June 2010, aged 94.