Joyce Constance Ina Waley-Cohen, Lady Waley-Cohen was an English educationist and public servant.
15 Facts About Joyce Waley-Cohen
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Joyce Waley-Cohen was chair of the Saint Felix School's governing body, the Governing Bodies of Girls' Schools Association, the Independent Schools Joint Council, Taunton School and Wellington College, chair of the board of both the Westminster Children's Hospital and the Gordon Hospital.
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Joyce Waley-Cohen was born on 20 January 1920 at 15 Lansdowne Road, Kensington, London.
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Joyce Waley-Cohen went to school at Saint Felix School in Southwold, and graduated from Girton College, Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1941.
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Joyce Waley-Cohen began her working career as an administrator in the Ministry of Fuel and Power in London.
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Joyce Waley-Cohen became Lady Mayoress of London when her husband was elected the city's Lord Mayor in 1960, and the family moved to Mansion House, London, the Lord Mayor's 18th-century official residence.
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Joyce Waley-Cohen planned social occasions at the house and toured Australia in 1961 in which London's Lord Mayor made his first official visit to Melbourne.
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Joyce Waley-Cohen was able to find time for public service, particularly in education.
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Joyce Waley-Cohen was an advocate of private and single-sex education and believed that single-sex education was better for girls than it was for boys for which they performed best in a mixed environment.
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From 1945 to 1983, Joyce Waley-Cohen was a member of Saint Felix School's governing body, on which she served as chair between 1970 and 1983.
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Joyce Waley-Cohen was a member of the Governing Bodies of Girls' Schools Association from 1964 and she chaired between 1974 and 1979 as well as being the chair of the Independent Schools Joint Council from 1977 to 1980.
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Between 1978 and 1990, Joyce Waley-Cohen was the chair of Taunton School and Wellington College from 1979 to 1990.
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Joyce Waley-Cohen was a member of the council of the advocate and independent sector lobbying Independent Schools Information Service from 1972 to 1980, which she chaired between 1981 and 1985.
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Joyce Waley-Cohen served as chair of the board of the Westminster Children's Hospital between 1952 and 1968 and The Gordon Hospital from 1961 to 1968.
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Joyce Waley-Cohen was a feverent supporter of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, and presented its first meet following its ban by the National Trust in 1997.