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Paterson's life was as unconventional as her on-screen persona suggested. She came from a Royal Army family, of which she later wrote, "My mother had no idea of how to cook and no wish to learn, existing on gorgonzola, coffee, and chocolates after the demise of any form of servant. My father, having gone through two World Wars, was far too frightened to put on a kettle and my brothers, who married young to very good wives...never showed any signs of wanting to whip up something delicious for a treat."[1]
Paterson was expelled from convent school at 15 for being disruptive.[2]
Paterson later became a matron at a girls' boarding school near Reading before ending up as a cook for the Ugandan Legation in London and becoming a well-known figure on the London party circuit. She worked on the ITV show Candid Camera and later became a Food Writer for The Spectator; for 15 years, she provided weekly lunches for personalities, including the Prince of Wales. She later wrote a book of recipes and reminiscences from her time at The Spectator entitled Feast Days, Recipes from The Spectator, in the introduction to which the English writer A.N. Wilson professed, "Jennifer Paterson is the best cook I know."[3]
Paterson was a committed Roman Catholic who never married or had any children. She was diagnosed with Lung cancer in July 1999 and died a month later in London.[4] She asked for caviar for her last meal but died before she could eat it. Following a traditional Funeral Mass, she was cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium and her ashes were interred in the cemetery there.
She was survived by an uncle, Anthony Bartlett OBE (who died in 2000), a close associate of Cardinal Basil Hume, to whom he was Gentiluomo.
Paterson was a parishioner of the London Oratory. She would cook for the congregation and clergy on a weekly basis. A portrait of her hangs in the kitchen of Oratory House.
Both Paterson and Dickson Wright affected unconcern with fat or calories. Paterson also smoked heavily and, at one point, took the opportunity to go out for a cigarette while a dish cooked in the oven. Most episodes ended with her smoking a cigarette and consuming an alcoholic beverage. Several times references were made to the fact that Dickson Wright, a recovering alcoholic, no longer drank any alcoholic beverages.
Paterson died of cancer on 10 August 1999, one month after diagnosis. The day before she died, she asked Dickson Wright to bring her a tin of caviar but when Dickson Wright arrived at the hospital, Paterson had already died. Dickson Wright said that after Paterson's funeral, she ate the caviar as a tribute to her friend.[4] Dickson Wright died at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 15 March 2014.[5]
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Dickson Wright was a supporter of the Conservative Party[21] and lived in Inveresk, Scotland.[22]
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Later years</h3>
Two Fat Ladies ended after Paterson's death. Dickson Wright appeared with Johnny Scott in Clarissa and the Countryman from 2000 to 2003 and played the gamekeeper in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous in 2003.[7] In 2005, Dickson Wright took part in the BBC reality television show Art School.
Dickson Wright campaigned for the Countryside Alliance and was the first female Rector of the University of Aberdeen.[7] Her autobiography, Spilling The Beans, was published in September 2007. In 2008, she presented a one-off documentary for BBC Four, Clarissa and the King's Cookbook, where she makes recipes from a cookbook dating to the reign of Richard II.[16]
Along with racehorse trainer Sir Mark Prescott, Dickson Wright was charged with hare coursing with dogs in North Yorkshire in March 2007 under a private prosecution lodged by the International Fund for Animal Welfare under the Hunting Act 2004.[17][18][19] On 1 September 2009, she and Prescott pleaded guilty and received an absolute discharge at Scarborough Magistrates' Court. They said that they were invited to the event by the Yorkshire Greyhound Field Trialling Club, which told the court that it believed it was running a legal event by using muzzled dogs.[18]
In October 2012, Dickson Wright appeared on Fieldsports Britain to discuss badgers and their nutritional value, saying: "There's going to be a cull, so rather than just throw them in the landfill site, why not eat them?"[20] In November 2012, she presented a short BBC4 TV series on the history of the British breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Death</h2>
She had been in hospital since the start of 2014 and died in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 15 March 2014.[13][23] her funeral mass was held at St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Roman Catholic) on 7 April, after which she was later cremated.[24]
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