Eileen Fitt(1951-2023)

BBC television editor Eileen Fitt was one of the five surviving children (all daughters) of Gerry and Susan Anne Gertrude (Doherty) Fitt. Another daughter died in infancy. Her father, Gerard "Gerry" Fitt (later Baron Fitt of Bell's Hill, County Down), was a politician from Northern Ireland. At age 15, despite hailing from a Catholic republican area of Belfast, he joined the merchant navy, serving in it from 1941 to 1953. During WWII, he sailed on Russian convoys. He later co-founded and was the first leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).