Patten, Marguerite

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Patten, Marguerite
Other forms of name
Brown, Hilda Elsie Marguerite
Date of birth
1915-11-04
Date of death
2015-06-04
Field of activity
Cooking
Television cooking shows
Occupation
Cooks
Home economists
Television personalities
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 79329761
Wikidata: Q6760805
Library of congress: n 80005239
Sources of Information
  • Cake and biscuit book, 1952.
  • New York times (online), viewed June 11, 2015(in obituary published June 10: Marguerite Patten; b. Hilda Elsie Marguerite Brown, Nov. 4, 1915, Bath, Somerset; m. Charles Patten, known as Bob, 1942 (d. 1997); d. June 4, Richmond, Surrey, aged 99; home economist who told ration-pinched British families how to make a satisfying meal out of nothing during World War II, and later became one of the country's first television chefs and the author of more than 170 cookbooks aimed at average Britons)
  • Her Cake and biscuit book, 1952.