Josceline Dimbleby | |
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| Born | Josceline Rose Gaskell February 1943 (age 82–83) Witney,Oxfordshire, England |
| Education | Cranborne Chase School |
| Occupations | Food writer, broadcaster |
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| Children | 3, includingHenry Dimbleby andKate Dimbleby |
| Relatives | Sir William Montagu-Pollock (stepfather) Percy Hague Jowett (grandfather) |
Josceline Rose Dimbleby (néeGaskell; born 1943) is a British cookery writer. She has written seventeen cookery books, and was cookery correspondent ofThe Sunday Telegraph for 15 years.[1]
Dimbleby was born in 1943.[2][3] She is the daughter of Thomas Josceline Gaskell (1906-1982) and Barbara Jowett (died 1998), whose fatherPercy Hague Jowett was principal of London'sRoyal College of Art.[4] In 1948, her mother Barbara Jowett married again, toSir William Montagu-Pollock.[5]
Dimbleby was educated atCranborne Chase School,[6] a former boardingindependent school for girls nearTisbury inWiltshire.
Dimbleby's great-grandmother, May Gaskell, was a "romantic confidante" of the artistEdward Burne-Jones, and a painting of her daughter Amy Gaskell by Burne-Jones is in the collection ofAndrew Lloyd Webber.[7] In 2004, Dimbleby publishedA Profound Secret, about May Gaskell's life.[7]
She has three children with her former husband, the broadcasterDavid Dimbleby, includingHenry Dimbleby andKate Dimbleby.[9][10][11]
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