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| Christina Gascoigne. |
Christina Mary Joy Gascoigne, who died 14 Aug, 2026, aged 87, was the widow of Bamber Gascoigne, the TV presenter and author.
She was born in Baghdad,1 February, 1939, the daughter of Alfred Henry Ditchburn, RN (1890-1962) of Barton-on-Sea, Hants, by his wife the former (Mabel) Gladys Symes.
She married in 1965, [Arthur] Bamber Gascoigne, CBE, FRSL, who died 8 February, 2022, who was an English television presenter and author. He was a scion of the Gascoigne landed gentry family. He was the original quizmaster on University Challenge, which initially ran from 1962 to 1987.
Bamber Gascoigne was born in London on 24 January 1935. He was the elder son of Lieutenant-Colonel Derek Ernest Frederick Orby Gascoigne [1905-72] (himself the son of Brigadier-General Sir Ernest Frederick Orby Gascoigne and Laura Cicely, daughter of General Edward Henry Clive, of that family of Styche Hall, Shropshire, from which also came the famous soldier and administrator of India Robert Clive by his marriage in 1934 to Mary ("Midi") Louisa Hermione O'Neill [born 19 Aug, 1905], a daughter of Captain the Hon. Arthur O'Neill and Lady Annabel Hungerford Crewe-Milnes.
Bamber's great-grandfathers included Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, and Edward O'Neill, 2nd Baron O'Neill. He was a nephew of Sir Julian Gascoigne, who was in charge of the Household Division during the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and of Terence O'Neill, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland 1963–1969. He was a direct descendant of the 18th-century Lord Mayor of London Sir Crisp Gascoyne and the Tory politicians Bamber Gascoyne (the elder) and Isaac Gascoyne. Isaac's son General Ernest Frederick Gascoyne, of Raby Hall, Liverpool (1796–1867),[2] was his great-great-great-grandfather.
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