Heather Jenner

 ( 1914 Births ) 

Heather Jenner (real name Heather Lyon; 1914 – 1991) was an English matchmaking, who ran a marriage bureau, called "The Marriage Bureau", in Bond Street, Mayfair, London.

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Biography The daughter of Cyril Arthur Lyon, an Army general, she married, first, in 1942, Michael George Cox, from whom she was divorced in 1955 to marry the writer Stephen Potter. Widowed in 1969, she later married Sir John Hastings James, deputy master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint. Contemporary Authors: A Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, Volumes 45–48, F. R. Locher, Gale / Cengage Learning, 1974, p. 258.

She established the agency called "The Marriage Bureau" in 1939, and kept the business secret from her family and friends, using the name "Heather Jenner", as such activity was considered scandalous at the time.

Her autobiography, Marriage is My Business, was published in 1954.

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 31 July 1967.

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Bibliography

• (in French)
• Heather Jenner (1967). 9780715602881, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd. ISBN 9780715602881
• (1970). 9780718103675, Michael Joseph. ISBN 9780718103675
• Heather Jenner (1979). 9780715376621, David & Charles. ISBN 9780715376621

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