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.^[1]

Josceline Dimbleby
Born	Josceline Rose Gaskell February 1943 (age 82) Witney, Oxfordshire, England
Education	Cranborne Chase School
Occupation(s)	Food writer, broadcaster
Spouse	David Dimbleby ​ ​ (m. 1967; div. 1993)​
Children	3, including Henry Dimbleby and Kate Dimbleby
Relatives	Sir William Montagu-Pollock (stepfather) Percy Hague Jowett (grandfather)

Early life and education

Dimbleby was born in 1943.^[2][3] 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.^[4] In 1948, her mother Barbara Jowett married again, to Sir William Montagu-Pollock.^[5]

Dimbleby was educated at Cranborne Chase School,^[6] 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.^[7] In 2004, Dimbleby published A Profound Secret, about May Gaskell's life.^[7]

Selected publications

• Cooking for Christmas (1978)
• Marvellous Meals with Mince (1982)
• A Traveller's Tastes (1986)
• The Practically Vegetarian Cookbook (1994)^[8]
• 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.^[9][10]