Xenia Field

Xenia Noelle Field MBE (née Lowinsky; 25 December 1894 – 24 January 1998) was a British county councillor, prison reformer, philanthropist, horticulturist and author.

Early life Field was born on 25 December 1894 at Secunderabad, India, where her father Thomas Hermann Lowinsky was general manager of the Hyderabad (Deccan) Co coal mines. On their return to England, the family lived at Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire. She stood, unsuccessfully, for parliament, first at North Somerset in 1950 and then at Colchester in 1951. She also won the Royal Horticultural Society's Veitch Memorial Medal, in 1972.

Personal life She married Dr. James Field, a much older man, in 1936; he died only five years later.

Death She died at Goldsborough Nursing Home, Ladbroke Road, Kensington, London on 24 January 1998, from a stroke. She was 103.