Paralympian who won one of Great Britain's first ever paralympic medals has died
She set up the Spinal Injuries Association to address a lack of specialist care or advice available to newly injured people and served as its president until her death.
The association described Lady Masham as "the reason we have been able to champion, fight, serve and support thousands of spinal cord injured people ever since". A statement read: "We are extremely sad to announce that our founder and life-long president, Baroness Sue Masham of Ilton, passed away peacefully at Northallerton Hospital on Sunday 12 March.
"It goes without saying that everybody at the Spinal Injuries Association is devastated to have lost our greatest champion.While the Paralympics GB website describes Baroness Masham as "one of Great Britain's first ever Paralympic medallists" and a "pioneering athlete".
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