Davina Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth

Davina Marcia Herbert Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth DBE ​​(* July 10, 1938, † 24 February 2008) was a British nobleman, politician and athlete.

Life and career

Davina Marcia Herbert was born in 1938 as the daughter of Mervyn Herbert, 17th Baron Darcy de Knayth, and his wife Vida Cuthbert. About her paternal grandfather George Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis, it comes from Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive from. My father fell in 1943 as a pilot in World War II. Thus, she inherited his title, which can also be inherited through the female line.

Herbert et al studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1960 she married the journalist Rupert Ingrams; from the marriage were born a son and two daughters. 1964 Ingram was seriously injured in a car accident, her husband died as a result of the accident. Davina Ingrams was initially paralyzed from the neck down, but could later move the arms and upper body partially.

Ingrams heavily involved in disabled sports and especially for the Paralympics. She also took part in them himself. In the Summer Paralympics 1968, she won in Tel Aviv a gold medal in swimming, four years later she won a bronze medal in table tennis at the Paralympics in Heidelberg.

Since 1963, when female peeresses were admitted for the first time, she held a seat in the House of Lords. There, she also sat down one particularly for the needs of people with disabilities. Even after the reform of the Upper House in 1999 had Ingrams until her death continue to sit there as one of the 90 members who are elected by the carriers of hereditary titles of nobility.

After her death the title passed to her son Caspar David Ingram.