Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington

Evelyn Joyce Denington, Baroness Denington, DBE (née Bursill; 9 August 1907 – 22 August 1998) was a British politician. She served as chair of the Stevenage Development Corporation from 1966–80 and chair of the Greater London Council from 1975–77.

Early life and career Denington was born Evelyn Joyce Bursill on 9 August 1907 to Philip Charles Bursill and Edith Rowena Montford. She was educated at Blackheath High School, Bedford College and Birkbeck College, where she attended evening classes.

Marriage She married Cecil Dallas Denington, a stockbroker's clerk but later a schoolteacher, in 1935. She became Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966.

During her time as a member of the Corporation, Stevenage town centre became Britain's first pedestrianized town centre. The local art gallery was named after her, and she became an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and an honorary member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. and from 1975–76, she became chair of the Greater London Council. She retired from the Greater London Council in 1977 and was created a life peer as Baroness Denington, of Stevenage in the County of Hertfordshire, on 10 July 1978.

Death and legacy She and her husband retired to Hove and they had no children. She died of heart failure on 22 August 1998 in Brighton, aged 91. Evelyn Denington Road in Newham, London was named in her honour.