# Alex Timpson

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{{Short description|British children's campaigner (1946–2016)}}
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| name               = Alex Timpson
| honorific_suffix   = [MBE](/source/Order_of_the_British_Empire)
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| birth_name         = Alexandra Winkfield Dodd
| birth_date         = 25 April 1946
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| death_date         = {{death-date and age|5 January 2016|25 April 1946}}
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| spouse             = {{marriage|[John Timpson](/source/John_Timpson_(businessman))|1968}}
| children           = 5, including [Edward](/source/Edward_Timpson) and [James](/source/James_Timpson%2C_Baron_Timpson)
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'''Alexandra Winkfield Timpson''' [MBE](/source/Order_of_the_British_Empire) (''née'' '''Dodd'''; 25 April 1946 – 5 January 2016) was a British campaigner for children's rights.

She grew up in [Lymm](/source/Lymm), [Cheshire](/source/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](/source/John_Timpson_(businessman)), she had three children (including politicians [Edward Timpson](/source/Edward_Timpson) and [James Timpson, Baron Timpson](/source/James_Timpson%2C_Baron_Timpson)), adopted two more, and fostered at least ninety other children.<ref name="telegraph1"/>

In the [2006 New Year Honours](/source/2006_New_Year_Honours), she was appointed a [Member of the Order of the British Empire](/source/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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