Marilyn Gillies Carr (born 16 December 1941) is a Scottish woman from Dundee. She was born without arms or hands and uses her feet for all activities of daily living. [1]
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Sharing a border with England to the southeast, Scotland is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast, the Irish Sea to the south, and the North Channel to the southwest. In addition to the mainland, situated on the northern third of the island of Great Britain, Scotland has over 790 islands, including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides.
Dundee is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was 148,270, giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or 6,420/sq mi, the second-highest in Scotland. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea. Under the name of Dundee City, it forms one of the 32 council areas used for local government in Scotland.
She appeared with Douglas Bader in the documentary film Two of a Kind in 1971, which contrasted his life as a double-leg amputee with hers as a person with no arms. The programme showed many scenes of Marilyn going about her daily life; at home, at work and also driving her car with her feet. She also appeared on Grampian Television on the programme The Wednesday People in 1972.
Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War. He was credited with 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged.
Grampian Television is the ITV franchisee for the North of Scotland. Its coverage area includes the Northern Isles, the Western Isles, the Highlands, Grampian, Tayside, the Isle of Siar, and parts of north Fife. The station has been in operation since 30 September 1961.
She married Barry Carr, an R.A.F. pilot in 1973. Marilyn has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Douglas Bader Community Garden charity, based in Cupar, Fife. Marilyn was Chair of the charity for a period, but resigned for personal reasons.
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force. Formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world. Following victory over the Central Powers in 1918 the RAF emerged as, at the time, the largest air force in the world. Since its formation, the RAF has taken a significant role in British military history. In particular, it played a large part in the Second World War where it fought its most famous campaign, the Battle of Britain.
Cupar is a town, former royal burgh and parish in Fife, Scotland. It lies between Dundee and Glenrothes. According to a 2011 population estimate, Cupar had a population around 9,000, making it the ninth largest settlement in Fife, and the civil parish a population of 11,183. It is the historic county town of Fife, although the council now sits at Glenrothes.
She ran in the Croydon North West by-election in 1981 as an Independent Pro-Life candidate. She won 340 votes, 1% of the total votes. Malcolm Muggeridge was a friend during this time.
The Croydon North West by-election took place on 22 October 1981. It was caused by the death of Conservative Member of Parliament Robert Taylor on 18 June 1981.
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge was an English journalist and satirist. His father was a prominent socialist politician and one of the early Labour Party Members of Parliament. As a young man, Muggeridge was attracted to communism but after living in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, he became a forceful anti-communist. During the Second World War he worked for the British government as a soldier and a spy. In the aftermath of the war, as a hugely influential London journalist, he converted to Christianity and helped bring Mother Teresa to popular attention in the West. He was also a critic of the sexual revolution and of drug use. Muggeridge kept detailed diaries for much of his life and developed these into two volumes of a critically acclaimed and uncompleted autobiography Chronicles of Wasted Time.
