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The Lady Lucinda Worsthorne (born 10 May 1943, Newcastle upon Tyne), better known as Lucinda Lambton, is a British writer, photographer and broadcaster, working both behind and in front of the Camera. Although she has many talents her main interest is architecture.

She has researched, written and presented some fifty seven films for the BBC as well as approximately twenty five for ITV. They include:

• On The Throne ... The History of the Lavatory;
• The Great North Road ... the architectural wonders from Edinburgh to London;
• A Cabinet of Curiosities ... of strange collections ... such as jewels made from the thighs of flies ... that were the foundations of Britain’s Museums;
• The Other House of Windsor - the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s house in Paris.

Her films are regularly shown on BBC Worldwide.

Four films for ITV on the architectural and historic delights to be found in London’s suburbs; entitled Sublime Suburbia, won the Regional Television’s award for the best documentary series of 2003, as well as the nomination for the best Television Presenter. A further series of Sublime Suburbia in six parts, was made celebrating the suburbs of London and the home counties .

She was the subject of BBC Favourite Things one of six half hour portraits ... including one of Lady Thatcher. She has written and taken the photographs for nine books including:

• Temples of Convenience ... a history of the lavatory;
• Beastly Buildings ... on architectural splendours for animals, such as a Grecian temple for pigs and castles for doves, guinea pigs, deer and salmon;
• Vanishing Victoriana ... on the oddities of 19th century architecture;
• An Album of Curious Houses and Lucinda Lambton’s A-Z of Britain ... an elaboration of the twenty six television programmes for the BBC.
• Old New World ... a comparison of Old and New World architecture.

In Lambton with a p, Lucinda went to America to find her roots; including three signatories of the Declaration of Independence; one of whom went on to make The Louisiana Purchase. She found Princess Pocahontas was her seven times great grandmother; and that Mark Twain’s mother was a Lampton; his cousin William Lampton was said to be the inspiration for Huckleberry Finn ... a coincidence as her son is named Huckleberry. On either of William Lampton’s grave in Mississippi, lie his wife Lucinda and his daughter Lucy Lampton.

She gives talks ... with or without her own slides ... throughout the British Isles, and in America; for the National Arts Collection Fund at the Royal Geographical Society, as well as the annual talks for The National Trust at The Royal Festival Hal. She also speaks aboard RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 for The National Trust and The Royal Oak Foundation and she has spoken at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She regularly opens new buildings and museums, as well as hosting architectural and canine prize giving events.

She has made several series for BBC Radio 4, including:

• Bringing the House Down ... fighting for buildings about to be wrongfully demolished;
• Elevations and Revelations ... on extraordinary houses;
• Pride of Place ... an argument against modern architecture.
• Hidden Treasures ... revealed architectural and historic beauties that are to be found amidst the bland.
• Listed ... reports on the efforts of the Twentieth Century Society to save notable post-WWII buildings.

She has been the subject of Desert Island Discs. She is a regular contributor to such newspapers and magazines as The Daily Telegraph and Country Life.

She is an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Institute of British Architects and an honorary member of The Chelsea Arts Club, as well as President of Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings. She is also a patron of The Cinema Theatre Association. She is an Honorary Vice President of The Crossness Engines Trust ... the Crossness Sewage Works. She is president of the Garden History Society.Lucinda is also patron of the Friends of Houghton Hillside Cemetery, an unusual churchyard in Houghton-le-Spring, Durham, which is located on the site of a former quarry.

Discovering the splendours of the British architectural heritage in Jamaica; she took photographs and wrote about these remarkable buildings, as well as making an hour long film, Lucinda Lambton’s Jamaican Adventure, for BBC Two .

The House of Teckelden, a book written and painted in 1945 by Denys Dawnay, with the introduction by Lucinda, and the foreword by David Hockney, was published in 2005.

She is involved in The Old Rectory Club, founded by Charles Moore, to foster interest in the history and well-being of rectories.

Her most recent television work was a film on buildings in London that were created on the sugar money of the Caribbean; as well as a programme to save Dollis Hill House ... lived in by both Prime Minister Gladstone and Mark Twain ... in north London

Lucinda is married to the journalist Peregrine Worsthorne and lives with him and two dogs in Buckinghamshire. She has two sons by a previous marriage.

Her parents were Anthony Claud Frederick Lambton and Belinda Blew-Jones. At the time of her birth her father was heir to the Earl of Durham, a title he later disclaimed. Her younger sister is actress Anne Lambton, who has appeared as a witch in The Witches (based on the book by Roald Dahl, and Rosemary and Thyme, as Queenie Allardyce.

Her most renowned work is perhaps Temples of Convenience and Chambers of Delight,on the history of the lavatory.

Lucinda originally went to school in Sunderland. She has been married three times: firstly to Henry Harrod in 1965 (divorced 1973), with whom she has two sons, (Henry) Barnaby (b. 1965) (Nathaniel) Huckleberry (b. 1967); secondly to Sir Edmund Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy, 6th Baronet (b. 1945) in 1986 (divorced 1989); and thirdly to the journalist and social commentator Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, a former editor of the Sunday Telegraph, in 1991. They live in The Old Rectory, Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire.

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