Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood (18 May 1913 – 29 June 2000), born Joan Pollock Graham, was a British far-right political activist who took part in a number of movements, and was described as the "largest individual distributor of racist and antisemitic material" in Britain. She was the second wife of Christopher Birdwood, 2nd Baron Birdwood. Early life She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the daughter of a singer from Hull and a mother from Newcastle, although according to her Searchlight obituary she was the daughter of a Scottish aristocrat. The family returned to Britain when she was 10 and settled in Yorkshire. She changed her name to Jane while working in the BBC Gramophone Library in order to avoid confusion with Joan Graham, a radio actress of the time. During the war she worked for the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), originally in Brussels and then in the early post-war period in Hamburg. Remaining in Germany, she joined the Red Cross in 1947, becoming secretary to Lieutenant Colonel, the Hon Christopher Birdwood. They began an affair; she was cited as a co-respondent in Birdwood's divorce case and became his second wife after the divorce was finalised in 1954. Her husband was the son of Field Marshal William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood); after his father died he succeeded to the title in 1951. In the 1950s, she was a prominent supporter of the émigré group, the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain, dominated by supporters of the extreme right-wing Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). Through her work with the Association of Ukrainians, she befriended Yaroslav Stetsko, an OUN leader who read out the declaration proclaiming a Ukrainian state in 1941. Stetsko had organised a pogrom in Lviv on 30 June 1941 that killed thousands of Jews and Poles. A central aspect of the OUN's ideology was the belief that nations had to stay racially "pure" to be successful, and hence the OUN made it clear that in the Ukrainian state it wished to establish there would be no minorities. In 1961, she visited South Africa, where she praised apartheid as an "inevitable and a social necessity". Strongly opposed to independence for the colonies of the British Empire, she joined the Monday Club, which represented the right-wing of the Conservative Party opposed to decolonisation. Political activities Initially serving only as a worker for her husband's passion, international aid, she expanded her