Jennifer Paterson

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Jennifer Paterson (3 April 1928 - 10 August 1999) was a chef and TV personality who appeared on the television programme Two Fat Ladies with Clarissa Dickson-Wright.

The pair were famous for their sometimes unhealthy, but presumably very delicious, meals made from scratch. Their preferred means of transportation was a motorbike with sidecar, which Paterson drove.

Paterson, a devout Roman Catholic who died in 1999 of lung cancer at the age of 71 in England, asked for caviar for her last meal.

She was survived by an uncle, Monsignor Canon Anthony Bartlett OBE (who died in 2001), a close clerical associate of the late Basil Cardinal Hume to whom he was Gentiluomo. The Gentiluomo was a form of ceremonial bodyguard who accompanied the Archbishop at formal occasions. As the role had become archaic, no new Gentiluomo was appointed after the death of Bartlett.