Memorial for Baroness Howe

A memorial for the late homelessness campaigner and crossbench peer Baroness Howe of Idlicote, will be held on 29 November.

Wife of former Conservative deputy prime minister Lord Howe, she died in March after a “brave battle with cancer,” her family said. A service in honour of her life and work will be held at noon in St Margaret’s Church, Westminster. Howe was deputy chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission from 1975 to 1979 and later chaired the Broadcasting Standards Commission.

Her campaigns included opposing internet pornography, and she once spent a night on the street to highlight the plight of the homeless.

Howe was married to her late husband – who, as Sir Geoffrey served in the government of Margaret Thatcher, before being instrumental in her downfall– for 62 years. The couple had three children: Caroline, Amanda and Alec.