Hilda Elsie Marguerite Brown Net Worth is $500,000
Hilda Elsie Marguerite Brown Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Marguerite Patten was born on November 4, 1915 in Bath, Somerset, England as Hilda Elsie Marguerite Brown. She is known for her work on Sugar in Your Kitchen (1984), Matters of Taste (1989) and Love on VE Day (2011). She was married to Charles (Bob) Alfred Patten. She died on June 4, 2015 in Richmond, Surrey, England.
[on being a home economist] To many people today we have become a dying race, which is a pity because we are needed more than ever. Our role is to educate people, to help them in the home. In this recession we really need to sort ourselves out.
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[on Fanny Cradock] She brought a sense of... gracious entertaining..., though I disapproved of her evening dress and spangles. I didn't like her as a person because she was a bully - we were judges together at the Festival of Britain [in 1951] and she massacred me in the meeting, but I would defend her ability to the end of my days.
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To the day I die, I will be a home economist.
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She received the Woman of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
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Lived in Brighton for many years but moved to a nursing home in Richmond after suffering a stroke in 2011.
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Brighton, East Sussex, England [June 2010]
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She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to culinary arts and broadcasting.
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She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to cookery.
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Widely regarded as Britain's first celebrity chef, she has written over 160 cookbooks in a career dating back to the 1940s. She has since sold 17 million copies worldwide.