LADY Badenoch, who has died aged 94, played her full part in the life of the city as a magistrate, volunteer and school governor.

Anne Badenoch (Lady Badenoch) held a number of key roles in Oxford life as a magistrate for more than 30 years, working for the Citizens Advice Bureau, volunteering at the League of Friends cafe at the Radcliffe Infirmary and sitting on the board of governors at Headington School.

She supported her husband Sir John Badenoch - a consultant physician, lecturer at Oxford and one of the most respected minds in the world of medicine.

Her youngest son Andy said she 'adored her family and was adored by them'.

Anne Badenoch was born on July 16, 1922 in Warkworth, Northumberland to parents Gladys and Lancelot Forster, professor of education at the University of Hong Kong.

She spent her early years in Hong Kong with her three sisters Margaret, Helen and Elspbeth before the family moved back to England when she was 11.

After a brief spell at a school in Leamington Spa she attended Headington School in 1935 before studying history at St Anne's College, Oxford.

She met future husband Sir John Badenoch at a tea party in Squitchey Lane - he came to Oriel College, Oxford, in 1938 and attended the wartime Clinical School at the Radcliffe Infirmary.

But then he was awarded a prestigious Rockefeller Student's Fellowship which took him to Cornell Medical School in New York in 1941 - he asked Anne to wait for him, she said no.

He returned to work at the Nuffield Department of Medicine in 1943 and Anne had waited for him and they married at St Peter's Church in Wolvercote on July 25, 1944.

The couple were then separated as Sir John undertook military service as medical officer of the West African Rifles to Nigeria and Lady Badenoch had joined the Women's Royal Navy Service.

Reunited in 1948, they had four children James, Lindsay, Catherine and Andy and would live in North Oxford until Sir John's death in 1996.

Anne played her part in the life of the city to full, she was a magistrate in Oxford for more than 30 years, a long-serving member of the Oxford Bach Choir and also worked at the Citizens Advice Bureau.

She volunteered at the League of Friends cafe at the Radcliffe Infirmary and latterly the John Radcliffe Hospital and was on the board of governors of Headington School, even attending the school's 100th anniversary party at the age of 92.

Her passion for music was accentuated through her commitment to the Music Therapy Charity - an Oxford based charity researching music as therapy, of which she was a vice-president.

Her many community roles and commitments kept her busy but she could also regularly be seen playing tennis on the Norham Garden courts.

She died peacefully on February 13, aged 94.

She is survived by her sister Elspbeth, her four children James, Lindsay, Catherine and Andy, her grandchildren Isabel, Joey, William, Rory, Holly and Henry and nine great-grandchildren.

Her funeral will take place tomorrow at St Margaret's Church in Oxford at 3pm.