Josceline Dimbleby

Dimbleby was born in 1943. 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. In 1948, her mother Barbara Jowett married again, to Sir William Montagu-Pollock. Dimbleby was educated at Cranborne Chase School, 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. In 2004, Dimbleby published A Profound Secret, about May Gaskell's life. ==Selected publications==

• Cooking for Christmas (1978) • Marvellous Meals with Mince (1982) • ''A Traveller's Tastes'' (1986) • The Practically Vegetarian Cookbook (1994) • 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. ==References==