Despite defining “The Sloane” and “The Mayfair Mercenary”, the co-author of The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook lived out her final years in Notting Hill in defiance of her parents who once asked: “Who’d live north of the park?” The granddaughter of the inventor of Irn-Bru, Ann Barr was “mischievous, gossipy and funny” and is credited with having “nurtured” amongst others Craig Brown, Nicholas Coleridge, Mary Ann Sieghart, Jon Savage, Stephen Bayley, Loyd Grossman, Fay Maschler, Hamish Bowles, Paul Levy, Victoria Mather and Oliver James. She is survived by her loyal parrot, Turkey.

The Roll Call - WRITERS

1

Susie Steiner

2

Michael Russell (1933 – 2020)

3

Jackie Collins OBE (born Jacqueline Collins, 1937 – 2015)

4

Ann Barr (1929 – 2015)

5

Malcolm Gladwell

6

Merlin Holland

7

Josie Goodbody

8

Jeanette Winterson OBE

9

Anna Smith

10

Erika Leonard James (E. L. James)

11

Philip K. Dick (1928 – 1982; AKA Richard Phillipps and Jack Dowland)

12

Mary Berry CBE

13

Seamus Heaney (1939 – 2013)

14

Katherine “Kate” Mosse OBE

15

Anne Dunhill

16

John Armstrong

17

Derek Blasberg

18

Alex Preston

19

Dominick Dunne (1925 – 2009)

20

Pippa Middleton

21

Richard Mason

22

Arthur Ransome (1864 – 1967)

23

Susan Hill CBE

24

Helena Matheopolous

25

Steven Berkoff

26

Aita Ighodaro

27

Julian Fellowes (The Lord Fellowes of West Stafford DL, also known as Julian Kitchener-Fellowes)

28

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