Background
She was born on 14 July 1906, the daughter of Brian Kemp-Welch of Kineton, Warwickshire, England, and was educated by a governess, and at a finishing school at Les Tourelles, Brussels, Belgium.
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Her brother was the cricketer George Kemp-Welch who married the eldest daughter of Stanley Baldwin. They divorced in 1942, leaving her with a nine-year-old son. To pay his fees at Winchester School, she worked as a dame (house matron) at Eton College.
Her Tatler column was originally called "On and Office Duty in Town and Country", becoming "Jennifer"s Diary" in 1945.
She took it to Queen (later Harpers & Queen) in 1959. She retired in 1991, when she was aged 84.
Her obituary in The Daily Telegraph described her as "insufferably snobbish and crotchety" and noted her long-running feud with Margaret, Duchess of Argyll and snubbing of Tatler"s social editor, Peter Townend. She appeared as a "castaway" on the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 14 December 1974.
Her autobiography, Jennifer"s Memoirs: Eighty-Five Years of Fun and Functions, was published in 1992.
She died in February 2001.
Membership
She was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 1986.
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