Xenia Field

Xenia Noelle Field MBE (née Lowinsky; 1894–1998), was a British county councillor, prison reformer, philanthropist, horticulturist and author.

Field was born on 25 December 1894 at Secunderabad, India, where her father Thomas Hermann Lowinsky was general manager of the Hyderabad (Deccan) Co coal mines. On their return to England, the family lived at Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire. Field was a pupil at Heathfield School, and then attended finishing school in Paris. Her father was a keen gardener, who won a Royal Horticultural Society gold medal.

With Morrison's support, she was elected as a Labour member of London County Council in 1946, representing Paddington North electoral division. She stood, unsuccessfully, for parliament, first at North Somerset in 1950 and then at Colchester in 1951. She also sat as a magistrate, and became interested in prison reform. She joined the breakaway Social Democratic Party in 1982, shortly after their formation.