Charlotte Hough

Charlotte Hough (24 May 1924 – 31 December 2008) (pronounced "how") was the British author of a detective novel and over thirty illustrated children's books. In the 1980s she was convicted of attempted murder, and sentenced to nine months imprisonment, for assisting a suicide.

Charlotte Hough was born Charlotte Woodyadd in Brockenhurst, Hampshire. Her father, aged 50, was a doctor in General Practise, and whose lineage went back to William the Conqueror. Her mother, an actress, singer and pianist, was widowed in World War I with a son. Charlotte was raised almost exclusively by her mother.

Charlotte's first husband was the author Richard Hough, and they had five children including the author Deborah Moggach.

In 1997, Charlotte married Dr Louis Ackroyd, a widower formerly in the Colonial Engineering Service and Nottingham University.

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