Lady Tracy Worcester

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Lady Tracy Worcester Tracy Louise Ward, Marchioness of Worcester, frequently referred to as Tracy Worcester (born 22 December 1958 in London, England) is a former actress, now an environmental campaigner. She is a daughter of the Hon. Peter Ward (a younger son of the third Earl of Dudley and formerly chairman of the family business, Baggeridge Brick PLC) and his first wife, Clare Baring, the only child of Giles Baring. She is the sister of British actress Rachel Ward and also has one brother and two half-brothers. Her great-grandfather, William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley, was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the early twentieth century, and then Governor General of Australia. He was the son of Georgina Ward, Countess of Dudley. Tracy Ward grew up on her father's estate at Cornwell, in Oxfordshire. After gaining three 'A'-levels, she went to Paris as a model, and then to work at Christie's in New York, first as a secretary and later as an art dealer. In her early twenties, she trained for an acting career at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, London, and the London Drama School. Lady Tracy Worcester - Pig Business As an actress, she is best remembered for her role as Tessa Robinson in the 1980s television detective series C.A.T.S. Eyes and as the first Miss Scarlett in the television drama game show Cluedo. She also had a part in the Doctor Who serial Timelash. Her theatre credits include: Our Day Out (Nottingham Playhouse) and Intimacy (Cafe Theatre). In 1987, Tracy Ward married Henry Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, a farmer and chartered surveyor who is heir to the Duke of Beaufort. They have three children, Robert, Earl of Glamorgan (1989), Lady Isabella Somerset (1991), and Lord Alexander Somerset (1995). In 1989, Tracy Worcester began working with Friends of the Earth. Since then, she has been active in green politics as Patron of the International Society for Ecology and Culture, a Trustee of the Gaia Foundation, the Schumacher Society and the Bath Environment Centre, Patron of the UK's Soil Association, and as a member of the advisory board of The Ecologist magazine and a member of the International Forum on Globalisation. She was also a member of the Referendum Party, opposed to greater European union. Trailer - Pig Business Film PIG BUSINESS Pig Business highlights four main impacts of factory farming operations. Abusing animals : Every year 1.2 billion pigs worldwide are slaughtered for meat, of which more than half have been reared by industrial, intensive methods. Destroying small farmers : Small independent farmers are relentlessly driven out of business by the economies of scale which large pig production systems can command. Jeopardising our lives : It is not only animals which are harmed by factory pig farms. Intensive farming can put human health at risk as well. Polluting the environment : The livestock sector is “one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global”. Livestock production, mostly factory farming, is expected to double across the globe by 2050. Kate Parkes speaking for the RSPCA at the Pig Business event at the House of Commons January 2010

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