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Mary Berry Biography
Birth Name:
Mary-Rosa Alleyne Berry
Birth Place:
Bath, Somerset, England
Profession
Food writer, host
Fast Facts
- At the age of 13, she contracted polio, forcing her to spend three months isolated in the hospital, leaving her with a permanently curved spine and slightly withered left hand
- Her father, Alleyne, served as the Mayor of Bath in 1952
- Served as the cookery editor for Ideal Home magazine between 1970 and 1973
- Her first cookbook, The Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook, was published in 1970, and went on to sell over two million copies
- She has written more than seventy cookbooks since then
- In 1994, she and her daughter Annabel launched a range of original branded salad dressings and sauces
- Became a patron of the charity, Child Bereavement UK, after her involvement with the charity in the wake of her son William's death
- Awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to the culinary arts in 2012
Relationships
- Roger Berry -- Brother
- William Berry -- Brother
- Annabel Bosher -- Daughter
- Alleyne Berry -- Father
- Alleyne William Steward Berry -- Father
- Paul Hunnings -- Husband
- Paul John March Hunnings -- Husband
- Margaret 'Marjorie' Berry -- Mother
- Margery Berry -- Mother
- Thomas Hunnings -- Son
- William Hunnings -- Son