Dame Evelyn Emily Marian Fox DBE (1874–1955) was a noted British health worker, specializing in mental health and epilepsy.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography profile She studied history at Somerville College, Oxford.
Fox, who was General Secretary of the National Association for Mental Health (NAMH – now known as MIND) in the late 1940s, along with Tyler Fox (no relation), Medical Director of the Epilepsy Colony at Lingfield, Surrey and Irene Gairdner, a social science graduate from the London School of Economics, were the driving forces for the creation of the British Epilepsy Association (BEA).
Legacy Dame Evelyn Fox School, Blackburn was named in her honour., dfes.gov.uk; accessed 5 April 2016. The school closed in 2000.Dame Evelyn Fox School statistics , lancashire.gov.uk; accessed 5 April 2016.
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