About Jacquemine Charrott Lodwidge
Jacquemine Francesca Anastasia Charrott Lodwidge (born Jacqueline Lodwidge) (20 July 1919 – 20 February 2012) was an English writer on crime and magic who also worked as an art director in British-made films and as a bookseller. During the Second World War, she served with the Free French forces in the Syrian desert and with the British Red Cross as a welfare officer in the Lebanon. == Early life == Born at Langport, Somerset, in July 1919, Lodwidge was the daughter of Dr William Charrott Lodwidge MRCS LRCP, medical officer of health to the Langport Rural District Council, who at the end of the First World War had retired as a Captain from the Royal Army Medical Corps. Originally from Basingstoke, her father's first wife had died in 1917; in 1918 he had married secondly, in France, Louise Elise Marie Kermarec (1894–1977), known as Lisette. Dr Lodwidge, born in 1864, was thirty years older than his second wife. Jacquemine Lodwidge was their only child and was born in 1919. In July 1925, the young Jacquemine won a prize for playing a Dutch girl in a carnival at Langport. In 1928, Dr Lodwidge retired on the grounds of ill health and died in April 1929, aged 65, when his daughter was nine, leaving an estate valued at £883, equivalent to £47,961 in 2025. She was thus brought up by her French mother, and they continued to live in Langport. == Career == At the beginning of the Second World War, Lodwidge was a student.
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