Candida Lycett Green
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Candida Lycett Green (left) unveiling a plaque commemorating her father, John Betjeman. Marylebone Station, 2006.
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| Born | Candida Rose Betjeman 22 September 1942 London, England |
| Died | 19 August 2014 (aged 71) England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Spouse | Rupert Lycett Green (1963 - 2014, her death) |
| Children | Five |
| Relatives | Sir John Betjeman (father) |
Candida Rose Lycett Green (née Betjeman; 22 September 1942 – 19 August 2014) was a British author who wrote sixteen books including English Cottages, Goodbye London, The Perfect English House, Over the Hills and Far Away and The Dangerous Edge of Things. Her television documentaries included The Englishwoman and the Horse, and The Front Garden. Unwrecked England, based on a regular column of the same name she wrote for The Oldie since 1992, was published in 2009.
Lycett Green has been described as "the finest writer of our time on the English countryside". She edited and introduced her father John Betjeman’s letters and prose in three volumes to critical acclaim. She was a commissioner of English Heritage for nine years and her proudest achievement was the role she played in the regeneration of Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-On-Trent.
She was a member of the Performing Rights Society through her writing of lyrics for songs and was a Contributing Editor to Vogue from 1987. She was part of the original team who started Private Eye. Nicky Haslam nominated Lycett Green as the living person he most admired ("beautiful, brave, strong, clever, loving and loved").
Candida Rose Betjeman was born on 22 September 1942 in Dublin where her father, John Betjeman (later Sir John), was wartime press attaché at the British Embassy. Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh, a friend of her father, celebrated her birth with a poem "Candida". Her mother, the Hon. Penelope Valentine Hester Betjeman (née Chetwode; 1910–1986), was the daughter of Field-Marshal Sir Philip Chetwode (later Lord Chetwode) (1869–1950). Her paternal grandparents, Ernest and Mabel ("Bess") Betjemann (her father dispensed with the second "n"), died in 1934 and 1951 respectively.
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