Willington was born in
Wembley,
Middlesex on 25 May 1931 and was educated at
North London Collegiate School for Girls. Willington earned a place at
Saint Martin's School of Art but instead attended Willesden College of Art when
Middlesex County Council did not pay the out-county fee. She was the creator of ceramics especially goblets and platters for a hotel in
Kensington that served medieval-style banquets. It was eventually published by
The Observer newspaper in April 1960, leading Willington to receive many letters from women across the United Kingdom confirming her negative experiences of childbirth in hospitals. She had great influence in the campaigns, local meetings and national conferences of the party and frequently closed her shop early and rush through traffic to attend committee meetings. In 1983, Willington suggested that an alternative to the
10th G7 summit at
Lancaster House, London. This came to be called
The Other Economic Summit (TOES UK) that later became the
New Economics Foundation. She was a member of the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Voice of Women group. Willington and her husband divorced in 1984 and she relocated to
Nowra, Australia in 1990 to be closer to her daughter. She returned to England in 2004 and settled in
Cornwall. Willington died of heart failure at her home in
Gunnislake, Cornwall on 6 September 2008. ==References==