FAREWELL TO FEMINIST ICON SUE BAKER
MEETING motoring writer and former Top Gear presenter Sue Baker, who died this week aged 75, was always a delight.
Friends for more than a quarter of a century, we spent many a happy hour in the UK and abroad sharing the driving on car launches, gossiping and laughing our socks off.
She died following a stoical battle with motor neurone disease. But what a legacy she leaves to her family, friends and colleagues.
As a journalist who carved a successful career in TV and in print in what was then an almost exclusively male domain, she’s been described as a ‘feminist icon’ of the motoring world.
Sue was a former chairman of the prestigious Guild of Motoring Writers, who praised her as a ‘pioneer for women in automotive journalism’.
Her family announced on Monday: ‘It is with great sadness, that we share the news of Sue’s passing. A doting mother to Ian and Hannah, a loving grandmother to Tom and George, and a wonderful mother-in-law to Lucy. She passed at home this morning with family around her.’