Lynda Lee-Potter

Lynda Lee-Potter OBE (born Lynda Higginson; 2 May 1935 – 20 October 2004) was a British jouyrnalist. She was best known as a columnist for the Daily Mail.

Lynda Higginson was born into a working-class family in the mining town of Leigh, Lancashire, England. Her father was a miner who would later turn to painting and decorating, while her mother worked in a shoe shop; Lynda won a place at Leigh Girls' Grammar School, which she described as "the escape route for ordinary children and the pathway to a new life". Her first ambition was to become an actress and, aged 18, she went to London to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, later telling friends that she lost her Lancashire accent on the train down. After leaving the Guildhall School, and using the stage name Lynda Berrison, she won a part in one of Brian Rix's farces at the Whitehall Theatre.

Higginson's life changed when she met Jeremy Lee-Potter, the son of Air Marshal Sir Patrick Lee-Potter, who was then a medical student at Guy's Hospital. They married in 1957, after which he was posted to Aden, Yemen, as an RAF doctor. While living there, she began her career as a journalist, writing articles for the Aden Chronicle about life as an expatriate. Her husband became an eminent consultant haematologist, based at Poole General Hospital, chairman of the Council of the British Medical Association from 1990 to 1993 and the deputy chairman of the professional conduct committee of the General Medical Council.

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