Josceline Dimbleby

Josceline Rose Dimbleby (née Gaskell; born 1943) is a British cookery writer. She has written seventeen cookery books, and was cookery correspondent of The Sunday Telegraph for 15 years.[2]

Josceline Dimbleby
Born
Josceline Rose Gaskell

February 1943 (age 80)
Witney, Oxfordshire, England[1]
EducationCranborne Chase School
Occupation(s)Food writer, broadcaster
Spouse
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(m. 1967; div. 1993)​
Children3, including Henry Dimbleby and Kate Dimbleby
RelativesSir William Montagu-Pollock (stepfather)
Percy Hague Jowett (grandfather)

Early life and education

Dimbleby was born in 1943.[3][4] She is the daughter of Thomas Josceline Gaskell (1906-1982) and Barbara Jowett (died 1998), whose father Percy Hague Jowett was principal of London's Royal College of Art.[5] In 1948, her mother Barbara Jowett married again, to Sir William Montagu-Pollock.[6]

Dimbleby was educated at Cranborne Chase School,[7] a former boarding independent school for girls near Tisbury in Wiltshire.

Dimbleby's great-grandmother, May Gaskell, was a "romantic confidante" of the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and a painting of her daughter Amy Gaskell by Burne-Jones is in the collection of Andrew Lloyd-Webber.[8] In 2004, Dimbleby published A Profound Secret, about May Gaskell's life.[8]

Selected publications
  • Cooking for Christmas (1978)
  • Marvellous Meals with Mince (1982)
  • A Traveller's Tastes (1986)
  • The Practically Vegetarian Cookbook (1994)[9]
  • A Profound Secret (2004)
  • Orchards in the Oasis – Recipes, Travels and Memories (2010)

Personal life

She has three children with her former husband, the broadcaster David Dimbleby, including Henry Dimbleby and Kate Dimbleby.[10][11]

References
  1. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  2. "Josceline Dimbleby – Home". Joscelinedimbleby.com. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  3. "Time & Place: A mystery room and a haunting portrait". 28 March 2004. Retrieved 1 July 2018 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  4. Dimbleby, Josceline; Fryer, Julia; Britain), Crafts Advisory Committee (1 July 1977). Party pieces : special recipes to celebrate the Queen's silver jubilee, 1952-1977. London (12 Waterloo Place, SW1Y 4AU) : Crafts Advisory Committee. ISBN 9780903798174. Retrieved 1 July 2018 – via Trove.
  5. Charles Kidd; Christine Shaw (2007). Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008. Debrett's. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-870520-80-5. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  6. "Obituary: Sir William Montagu-Pollock". Independent.co.uk. 5 October 1993. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  7. McLellea, Amy (7 October 2004). "Best days of their lives?". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  8. "A Profound Secret by Josceline Dimbleby". Independent.co.uk. 26 March 2004. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  9. "Cookbooks For Food Lovers Who Are Nearly Vegetarians". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  10. "Media families: 26. The Dimblebys". Independent.co.uk. 4 August 1997. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  11. "A family business". 6 April 2002. Retrieved 1 July 2018 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
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