Dame Evelyn Emily Marian Fox DBE (1874–1955) was a noted British health worker, specializing in mental health and epilepsy. She studied history at

Somerville College, Oxford Somerville College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. It began admitting men in 1994. The colle ...

. Fox, who was General Secretary of the

National Association for Mental Health Mind is a mental health charity in England and Wales. It was founded in 1946 as the National Association for Mental Health (NAMH). Mind offers information and advice to people with mental health problems and lobbies government and local author ...

(NAMH – now known as MIND) in the late 1940s, along with Tyler Fox (no relation), Medical Director of the Epilepsy Colony at

Lingfield, Surrey Lingfield is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England, approximately south of London. Several buildings date from the Tudor period and the timber-frame medieval church is Grade I listed. The stone cage or old ga ...

and Irene Gairdner, a social science graduate from the

London School of Economics The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. The school specialises in the social sciences. Founded ...

, were the driving forces for the creation of the British Epilepsy Association (BEA).

Legacy

Dame Evelyn Fox School,

Blackburn Blackburn () is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the River Ribble, Ribble Valley, east of Preston ...

is named in her honour. The school closed in 2000.Dame Evelyn Fox School statistics
, lancashire.gov.uk; accessed 5 April 2016.

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* Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford English health activists Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1874 births 1955 deaths Place of birth missing Place of death missing {{UK-med-bio-stub