Heather Jenner
{{Short description|English matchmaker (1914–1991)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2014}}
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| birth_name = Heather Lyon
| birth_date = 1914
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| death_date = {{death year and age|1991|1914}}
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| occupation = Matchmaker
| known_for = Founder of The Marriage Bureau
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| {{marriage|Michael George Cox|1942|1955|reason=divorce}}
| {{marriage|Stephen Potter |1955|1969|reason=died}}
| Sir John Hastings James|}}
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Heather Jenner (real name Heather Lyon; 1914 – 1991{{Cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/heart-searching-in-the-end-chemistry-is-quite-baffling-the-agencies-to-begin-a-series-angela-wilkes-1508254.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220509/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/heart-searching-in-the-end-chemistry-is-quite-baffling-the-agencies-to-begin-a-series-angela-wilkes-1508254.html |archive-date=9 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title = Heart Searching: 'In the end, chemistry is quite baffling': The Agencies. To begin a series, Angela Wilkes visits a traditional marriage bureau|website=The Independent|location=London|first=Angela|last=Wilkes |date = 2 October 1993}}) was an English matchmaker, who ran a marriage bureau, called "The Marriage Bureau", in Bond Street, Mayfair, London.
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.{{Cite book| url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U156073 |title = Who Was Who – oi| chapter=James, Sir John Hastings, (Sir Jack), (4 June 1906 – 27 May 1980), Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint, and ex officio Engraver of HM's Seals, 1957–70 | date=December 2007 | publisher=Oxford University Press | doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U156073 }}
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.{{cite journal|last=Pugh|first=Martin|author-link = Martin Pugh (author)|date=1 August 2008|title=Wish You Were Here?|journal=History Today}}
Her autobiography, Marriage is My Business, was published in 1954.{{cite book |last=Jenner |first=Heather |title=Marriage is My Business|year=1954 |publisher=Kimber }}
She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 31 July 1967.{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/ff8cb0ff#p009y2mq |title=Desert Island Discs – Castaway : Heather Jenner |publisher=BBC Online |access-date=27 July 2014}}
Bibliography
- {{cite book |last=Jenner |first=Heather |author-mask=2 |title=Un mariage par jour |year=1953 |publisher=Pierre Horay }} (in French)
- {{cite book |last=Jenner |first=Heather |author-mask=2 |title=Marriage is My Business |year=1954 |publisher=Kimber }}
- {{cite book |last=Jenner |first=Heather |author-mask=2 |title=The Marriage Book |year=1964 |publisher=Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd }}
- {{cite book |last=Jenner |first=Heather |author-mask=2 |title=Royal Wives |year=1967 |publisher=Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd |isbn=978-0715602881 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Jenner |first1=Heather |author-mask=2 |last2=Segal |first2=Muriel |title=Men and Marriage |year=1970 |publisher=Michael Joseph |isbn=978-0718103675}}
- {{cite book |last=Jenner |first=Heather |author-mask=2 |title=Marriages are Made in Heaven |year=1979 |publisher=David & Charles |isbn=978-0715376621 }}
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Category:20th-century English businesspeople
Category:Businesspeople from the City of Westminster
Category:English autobiographers
Category:English non-fiction writers
Category:Place of birth missing
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Category:Women autobiographers
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