Scottish Conservative councillor and moral campaigner who took on the ‘depravity’ of the Edinburgh fringe festival
Moira Knox, who has died aged 85, was a Conservative councillor who gave her name to an ironic honour bestowed by the annual Edinburgh festival fringe arts festival. Since 1995, a “Moira” has been awarded to “the most offensive show on the fringe”.
While she gave long public service in a range of causes, it was by Knox’s own endeavours that she secured prominence for only one – as guardian against the perceived tide of theatrical depravity visited upon her city by the fringe. No reporter seeking condemnation of some alleged outrage was sent away disappointed, despite near certainty that Knox had not witnessed the source of offence.
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