{{Short description|British children's campaigner (1946–2016)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Alex Timpson | honorific_suffix = MBE | image = | caption = | birth_name = Alexandra Winkfield Dodd | birth_date = 25 April 1946 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death-date and age|5 January 2016|25 April 1946}} | death_place = | education = | occupation = | alma_mater = | known_for = | networth = | spouse = {{marriage|John Timpson|1968}} | children = 5, including Edward and James | parents = | relations = | website = }}
'''Alexandra Winkfield Timpson''' MBE (''née'' '''Dodd'''; 25 April 1946 – 5 January 2016) was a British campaigner for children's rights.
She grew up in Lymm, Cheshire.<ref name="telegraph1">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12122844/Alex-Timpson-childrens-campaigner-obituary.html |title=Alex Timpson, children's campaigner - obituary |publisher=Telegraph |date= 26 January 2016|accessdate=1 April 2017}}</ref> Together with her husband John Timpson, she had three children (including politicians Edward Timpson and James Timpson, Baron Timpson), adopted two more, and fostered at least ninety other children.<ref name="telegraph1"/>
In the 2006 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) "for services to Children and Families".<ref>United Kingdom:{{London Gazette |issue=57855 |date=31 December 2005 |pages=22 |supp=1}}</ref>
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