Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie, a British life peer and member of the House of Lords from 2005 to 2024, died on March 12, 2026.
Born Irene Tordoff Fennell on April 29, 1942, in Fife, Scotland, she was educated at Ribston Hall Grammar School for Girls in Gloucester and had a long career specialising in training and development. She was Commissioner for Public Appointments from 1999 to 2005, and in the 1970s was one of the first full-time women’s training advisers, later working on training at the Equal Opportunities Commission.
She also used a German Marshall Fellowship in 1985 to study ways to improve the status of women and published and contributed regularly on related topics.
Irene Tordoff Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie, DBE (née Fennell; 29 April 1942 – 12 March 2026), known as Rennie Fritchie, was a British life peer who was a member of the House of Lords.