Diana Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon

Diana Josceline Barbara Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon (7 July 1919 – 27 November 1992), born Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard, was a Conservative member of the House of Lords after receiving a life peerage in August 1979.

Diana Giffard was daughter of Thomas Arthur Walter Giffard,MBE, DL for Staffordshire, of Chillington Hall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire and his wife Angela Erskine Trollope, elder daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Henry Trollope, 10th Bt. She married Airey Neave (23 January 1916 – 30 March 1979), elder son and first child of Sheffield Airey Neave, himself a grandson of Sir Thomas Neave, 2nd Baronet, of the Neave baronets, and his first wife Dorothy Middleton, on 29 December 1942. They had three children:

Diana Neave was created Baroness Airey of Abingdon, of Abingdon in the County of Oxford on 6 August 1979, a few months after her husband was killed, as she was the widow of Airey Neave, a British Conservative MP for Abingdon and a prominent politician. He was killed when a mercury-tilt based car bomb exploded under his car as he drove out of the Palace of Westminster car park. The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) claimed responsibility for his murder.

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