Within the family her father was autocratic and violent, and often drunk. Had she done as she was told, she would have studied medicine at Oxford.īy her own account, her childhood was not happy. Educated at the Sacred Heart Convent in Hove, East Sussex, she studied law at University College London, being at the time the youngest woman – at the age of 21 – ever to be called to the bar. Clarissa was brought up as a Roman Catholic, and remained one, albeit sometimes truculently. Both parents were of Scottish descent, although her mother's immediate forebears had connections with Singapore and Australia. The presenters' eccentricity, their love of cream and meat and very rich food, the unscripted whimsy of their on-screen exchanges and, of course, their physical presence and demeanour made them unforgettable – as if two women of a certain age perambulating Britain in an uncertainly piloted motorcycle combination was not already enough to fix them in our memory.īorn in London, Clarissa was the youngest daughter of Arthur Dickson Wright, a prominent surgeon, and Molly (nee Bath). Clarissa Dickson Wright, who has died aged 66 in Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary, took the world of television food and drink by storm when she was paired up with Jennifer Paterson in the BBC series Two Fat Ladies (1996-99).
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