Lizbeth Hayhoe

Professor Lizbeth "Liz" Hayhoe was a fellow of Somerville College and an employee of Torchwood One, placed in charge of Room 13 by Reginald Rigsby.

World War II
Lizbeth worked for Torchwood during World War II. (AUDIO: Parasite, Curios) She arranged for Jill Anderson to be sent to catalogue the Torchwood Archive's artefacts hidden in a Welsh coal mine. (AUDIO: Curios)

She was tasked with pretending to run a farm whilst actually hiding a cache of extraterrestrial weapons in Wookey Hole Caves, assisted by land girls billeted near G.I.s. The girls often had sex with the soldiers and became pregnant, resulting in Lizbeth spending many a night at the cottage hospital as they gave birth. She was impressed at how they would still be digging up turnips whilst in their eighth month. (AUDIO: Parasite)

Post-war
In the early 1950s, Torchwood sent Lizbeth to visit the German equivalent to Torchwood, Project Hermod, to gain intelligence on its latest weapons. There, she discovered that Project Hermod had infected living children with alien fungi. Disgusted by what she found, Hayhoe burnt the place to the ground. This caused Reginald Rigsby, leader of Torchwood One, to demote her to Room 13. She met Norton Folgate for the first time while preparing the Skylon for the Festival of Britain.

Lizbeth was once certain that a suspicious shipment contained alien technology. It transpired that it actually contained stockings, an incident which Norton would not let her forget. (AUDIO: Parasite)

In June 1953, Hayhoe lead a mission to round up and store those whose faces had been stolen by the Wire, an alien parasite that had attempted to invade Earth in the leadup to the coronation of Elizabeth II. (AUDIO: Parasite, TV: The Idiot's Lantern)

Shortly after, Hayhoe was joined in Room 13 by Norton Folgate, who had been stationed there after his failed attempt at a takeover of Torchwood. (AUDIO: Goodbye Piccadilly) Together, Hayhoe and Folgate were victims of memory manipulation at the hands of Adam. Adam used his powers to manipulate the memories of the Torchwood employees, temporarily depose Rigsby, and attempt an instellar war with the Kernaz. Hahyhoe and Folgate realised something was wrong but their investigation was continually setback by Adam editing their memories. On the day of war, Hayhoe and Folgate deactivated Torchwood's weapons and exposed Adam, handing him over to the Kernaz who banished him to the Void for the destruction of their homeworld. (AUDIO: Madam, I'm)

Death
In the mid-1950s, Project Hermod used gangsters to smuggle packages into Torchwood itself containing the alien fungi previously thought destroyed by Hayhoe herself. This fungi quickly spread through the smog of Soho, controlling the minds of taxi drivers and policemen, in effect paralysing London from invading attacks. When the fungi took control of Torchwood, the remaining staff, including Hayhoe, closed themselves away. However, this was ineffective and both Hayhoe and Rigsby perished. After her death, Norton Folgate, Andy Davidson and new recruit Gideon Lyme defeated the fungi and started to rebuild Torchwood. (AUDIO: Parasite)

Personality
Lizbeth was an intelligent woman and, according to Norton, was one of the finest minds at Torchwood. She was aware that she was unpopular in the organisation and decided to endure her punishment at Room 13 long enough to get a pension and a cottage in Hebden Bridge. A lesbian with a habit of seducing ex-Wrens, she hoped to settle down with "a bitter old bull dyke called Marjorie" and argue with her in their old age.

She enjoyed crumpets, bacon rolls, tea, coffee and cocoa. (AUDIO: Parasite)

Appearance
Lizbeth arrived at work in a hat and coat. When Norton told her that she had one of the finest minds at Torchwood, he added that it was in "one of the most ugly bodies". (AUDIO: Parasite)