of the Year Lunches at the Savoy Hotel in 1955, in aid of the Greater London Fund for the Blind and other charities. She was vice-president of the Royal College of Nursing from 1960 to 1980 as well as being a patron of the National Council of Women of Great Britain and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Lady Lothian lost an eye in 1970 as a result of cancer, afterwards using a black eye patch. She was appointed an OBE in 1997 "for services to women and blind people" and a Dame of the Order of St Gregory the Great in 2002. Lady Lothian interviewed the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova for her book ''Valentina: First Woman in Space. Bibliography Fight for the Light: What Should Christians Do So that New Shapes in Suffering Can be Overcome? (Church of Scotland, 1973) Valentina: First Woman in Space : Conversations with A. Lothian (Pentland Press, 1993) ISBN 9781858210643 Honours - OBE - DSG See also Marquess of Lothian List of family seats of Scottish nobility References External links Tony Lothian Prize Obituary, The Times, 8 January 2007 Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 8 January 2007 1922 births 2007 deaths British philanthropists British Roman Catholics British people with disabilities Royalty and nobility with disabilities 20th-century British women writers 21st-century British women writers Dames of St. Gregory the Great Officers of the Order of the British Empire Italian emigrants to the United Kingdom British people of Spanish descent Lothian 20th-century Scottish women 21st-century Scottish women National Council of Women of Great Britain members 20th-century British journalists Scottish non-fiction writers