Jill Paton Walsh
Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford, CBE, FRSL (née Bliss; 29 April 1937 – 18 October 2020), known professionally as Jill Paton Walsh, was an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for her Booker Prize-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels and for the Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries that continued the work of Dorothy L. Sayers.
The Right Honourable The Lady Hemingford CBE FRSL | |
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Paton Walsh in 2011 | |
| Born | Gillian Honorine Mary Bliss 29 April 1937 London, England |
| Died | 18 October 2020 (aged 83) Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Author |
| Known for | Knowledge of Angels |
| Spouses | Antony Paton Walsh
(m. 1961; died 2003)Nicholas Herbert, 3rd Baron Hemingford
(m. 2020) |
| Children | 3 |
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