Sir richard maccormac jocasta innes biography

          Within one month last year, he and Jocasta Innes each discovered they were afflicted with terminal cancer and both met these tragic.

        1. Within one month last year, he and Jocasta Innes each discovered they were afflicted with terminal cancer and both met these tragic.
        2. For the last thirty years her partner was the architect Sir Richard MacCormac, a former president of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
        3. Sir Richard Cornelius MacCormac CBE, PPRIBA, FRSA, RA (3 September – 26 July ), was a modernist English architect and the founder of MJP Architects.
        4. Sir Richard MacCormac, who died on 26 July after an month battle with cancer, was an architect whose unusually wide intellectual and cultural interests.
        5. 'Architectural lion', essayist, RIBA president and raconteur whose passions for the aesthetic, Soane, and life in general informed and.

          6. Sir Richard Cornelius MacCormac CBE, PPRIBA, FRSA, RA (3 September – 26 July ), was a modernist English architect and the founder of MJP Architects.!

          Jocasta Innes

          British writer and journalist

          Jocasta Claire Traill Innes[1] (21 May 1934 – 20 April 2013) was a British writer, journalist and businesswoman.

          Life

          Innes was born in Nanjing, China, the eldest of three daughters born to Paul Joseph Anthony Innes, a Shell Oil executive and Alice Eileen née Traill, an Irish-Argentinian teacher who ran a school for the children of other British-born residents.[2] By the age of twelve she had lived on every continent in the world, except Antarctica.

          After a spell at a Coptic convent in Cairo, she was educated at Bedford High School from 1949 and Girton College, Cambridge, where she read Modern Languages.[3][4]

          One of her first jobs was with the Evening Standard’s Londoners Diary, where she was known for gatecrashing the debutante balls that were diary fodder at the time.[2]

          Her first book was the bestselling The Pauper's Cookbook[5] (1971), born as she sai