and she chaired between 1974 and 1979 as well as being the chair of the Independent Schools Joint Council from 1977 to 1980. Between 1978 and 1990, Waley-Cohen was the chair of Taunton School and Wellington College from 1979 to 1990. She 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. 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. For almost four decades, she was a Justice of the peace, serving in Middlesex between 1949 and 1959 and in Somerset from 1959 to 1986. In the late 1980s, Waley-Cohen settled down at Exmoor and took up gardening and started the craft tent at the Exford Show. She was predeceased by her husband in 1991. 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. On 30 June 2013, she died at Honeymead House. Her funeral took place at Golders Green Crematorium on the morning of 4 July and a thanksgiving celebration was held for her at Simonsbath on the afternoon of 16 July. The National Portrait Gallery, London holds a series of four quarter-plate glass negative photographic portraits of Waley-Cohen and her children in its collection. References 1920 births 2013 deaths People from Kensington 20th-century English Jews 21st-century English Jews 20th-century English women 21st-century English women 20th-century educational theorists Civil servants from London Joyce Daughters of barons English educational theorists English justices of the peace Spouses of British politicians Wives of baronets Women civil servants Women educational theorists