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F r o m W i k i p e d i a , t h e f r e e e n c y c l o p e d i a
British magazine columnist
Betty Kenward
Born
Elizabeth Kemp-Welch
(1906-07-14 ) 14 July 1906
Died 31 January 2001(2001-01-31) (aged 94 )
Nationality British Occupation Journalist Known for "Jennifer's Diary"
Elizabeth Kenward MBE (née Kemp-Welch ; 1906–2001) was an English magazine columnist, known for writing "Jennifer's Diary", originally in Tatler , subsequently in Queen .[1] [2] [3]
She was born on 14 July 1906, the daughter of Brian Charles Durant Kemp-Welch[4] of Kineton , Warwickshire, England, and was educated by a governess , and at a finishing school at Les Tourelles, Brussels , Belgium. The Kemp-Welch family were 'solid county Warwickshire stock',[5] appearing in Burke's Landed Gentry .[1] Her brother was the cricketer George Kemp-Welch who married the eldest daughter of Stanley Baldwin .
She married Captain Peter Trayton Kenward[6] of the 14th/20th King's Hussars , employed in his family's brewing business,[7] at St Margaret's, Westminster , in 1932,[1] and adopted his name. They divorced in 1942, leaving her with a nine-year-old son.[1] To pay his fees at Winchester School , she worked as a dame (house matron) at Eton College .[1] Captain Kenward remarried, to Patricia (1918–1957), daughter of Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell , in 1947,[8] [9] and in 1958 to Bridget Catherine Elizabeth Tucker (1928–2015).[10] [11]
Her Tatler column was originally called "On and Off Duty in Town and Country", becoming "Jennifer's Diary" in 1945.[1] She took it to Queen (from 1970 Harpers & Queen ) in 1959.[1] She retired in 1991, when she was aged 84.[1] Her obituary in The Daily Telegraph described her as "insufferably snobbish and crotchety", recounting her ferocious treatment of her assistants (many of whom resigned in tears), her propensity for long-running feuds (including, particularly, with Margaret, Duchess of Argyll ), and her persistent snubbing of Tatler ' s social editor, Peter Townend .[1]
She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 14 December 1974.[12]
She was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1986.[1] Her autobiography, Jennifer's Memoirs: Eighty-Five Years of Fun and Functions , was published in 1992.[13]
She died on 24 January 2001 in London.[14]
Bibliography [ edit ]
Kenward, Betty (1992). Jennifer's Memoirs: Eighty-Five Years of Fun and Functions . London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0002551137 .
References [ edit ]
^ Hoge, Warren (1 February 2001). "Betty Kenward, 94, Snobbish Chronicler, Dies" . The New York Times . Retrieved 17 August 2014 .
^ Send More Shrouds: The V1 Attack on the Guards' Chapel 1944, Jan Gore, Pen and Sword, 2017, p. 115
^ The Spectator, vol. 255, 1985, p.
^ World Who's Who of Women 1990/1, Taylor & Francis, 1990, vol. 10, p. 463
^ The New York Times Biographical Service, vol. 32, New York Times & Arno Press, 2001, p. 247
^ Burke's Peerage, 2003, vol. 2, p. 2045
^ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain, ed. Charles Roger Dod, Roger Phipps Dod, 1960, p. 396
^ Joan: Beauty, Rebel, Muse: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor, Simon Fenwick, Pan Macmillan, 2017
^ "KENWARD - Deaths Announcements - Telegraph Announcements" .
^ "Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Betty Kenward" . BBC Online . BBC. Retrieved 14 August 2014 .
^ Sale, Johnathan (11 October 1992). "BOOK REVIEW / Rich pals and poor syntax" . The Independent . Retrieved 17 August 2014 .
^ Hoge, Warren (February 2001). "Betty Kenward, 94, Snobbish Chronicler, Dies" . The New York Times . Retrieved 28 January 2017 .
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Betty_Kenward&oldid=1199810646 "
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