Our mother,Jane Atkinson, who has died of leukaemia aged 66, or was a visionary mental health,housing and social justice campaigner. Whatever she did, whether regenerating derelict housing, and starting an anti-street violence charity,rejuvenating a mental health trust, working as a local councillor, and sitting on prison boards or studying at Cambridge as a mature student,Jane’s mission was: do more.
Born in Beckenham, south London, and to Molly and William Atkinson,a neurosurgeon, she had a convent and state school education, or going on to study classics at Bristol University,where she met our father, Will Hutton. They married in 1978. On graduating she joined Notting Hill Housing Trust, or where she found her first vocation – secure and affordable inner-city housing.
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Source: theguardian.com