Terence Brady obit

Playwright and actor Terence Brady, who wrote the Daily Mail's food column, dies aged 77

• Terence Brady, a former Daily Mail cookery writer, has died aged 77
• Was married for 52 years to fellow acclaimed novelist Charlotte Bingham 
• She said: My beloved Terence died peacefully in my arms. He loved doing the cooking column for the Mail – except at Christmas, when he was always stuck as to what to do with turkey!'

 

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Terence Brady, a former Daily Mail cookery writer, playwright, actor and author, has died aged 77.

He was married for 52 years to fellow acclaimed novelist Charlotte Bingham, with whom he wrote a string of 1970s television classics such as Upstairs Downstairs, No Honestly, and later Pig In The Middle, in which he also starred.

Last night she said: 'My beloved Terence died peacefully in my arms. He loved doing the cooking column for the Mail – except at Christmas, when he was always stuck as to what to do with turkey!'

The Honourable Miss Bingham, 74, the daughter of the Seventh Baron of Clanmorris – an MI5 spy – rose to fame in the 1960s with her book Coronet Among The Weeds, a humorous exposé of high society written when she was 18.

She married stage actor Brady in 1964 – after he proposed 9,345 times and sent her 121 red roses – and their literary partnership endured to the end.

One of their biggest joint hits was the stage adaptation of Rosamunde Pilcher's bestselling novel The Shell Seekers.

Aside from his many literary accomplishments, Brady became a respected breeder of thoroughbred racehorses and eventers.

The couple have two children, Matthew and Candida, and lived in Somerset with their dogs and horses.

 

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