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Mary Featherstonhaugh Frampton ( ; 16 February 1928 – 28 August 2014), was a British civil servant who worked as clerk in charge of the Serjeant at Arms department in the
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, writing for her obituary in ''The Independent'', wrote that Frampton was one of "a number of ladies in the Palace of Westminster who would not have been offended had I described them as tanks - heavily armoured Panzers with 88mm guns, at that."
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, former
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, wrote about the time that Frampton had in 1978 served a
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on Sir Charles Villiers, and was recognised as a "formidable stickler for the rules".


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Frampton, Mary Featherstonhaugh 1928 births 2014 deaths House of Commons of the United Kingdom British civil servants Members of the Order of the British Empire