Lady Mary Fagan | |
Office: | Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire |
Term Start: | 28 March 1994 |
Term End: | 11 September 2014 |
Predecessor: | James Walter Scott |
Successor: | Nigel Atkinson |
Birth Name: | Florence Mary Vere-Laurie |
Birth Date: | 11 September 1939 |
Birth Place: | Nottinghamshire, England |
Spouse: | Christopher Tarleton Feltrim Fagan (1960–present) |
Nationality: | British |
Rank: | Honorary Rear Admiral |
Branch: | Royal Naval Reserve |
Awards: | Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Dame of the Order of St John Service Medal of the Order of St John with two gold bars |
Lady Florence Mary Fagan, (born 11 September 1939) is a former Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, who served from 1994 until her retirement on 11 September 2014.[1]
Fagan was born at Gonalston Hall, Nottinghamshire, England. Fagan's parents were Lt. Col. George Haliburton Foster Peel Vere-Laurie and Caroline Judith Francklin.[2]
She was married on 21 October 1960 to Captain Christopher Tarleton Feltrim Fagan, son of Christopher Frederick Feltrim Fagan and Helen Maud Tarleton,[3] with whom she has had two sons: Christopher Hugh Tarleton Feltrim Fagan (died in a motor car accident in 1987) and James Tarleton Feltrim Fagan.
Lady Mary is chair of trustees of the Countess of Brecknock Hospice Trust. She is also a trustee of the Overlord Embroidery Trust, The Edwina Mountbatten and Leonora Children's Foundation, and Winchester Cathedral Trust.[4]
She served as Chancellor of the University of Winchester from 2006 to 2014.
In the 2009 Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO), and thereby granted the title dame. She was appointed a Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter (LG) on 23 April 2018, and thereby granted the title lady.[5] She is also a Dame of the Order of St John.[6]