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British biographer (1940–2020)

Fiona Caroline MacCarthyOBE (23 January 1940 – 29 February 2020) was a British biographer and cultural historian best known for her studies of 19th- and 20th-century art and design.

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Early life and education

Fiona MacCarthy was born in Sutton, Surrey, in 1940,^[1] into an upper-class background, from which she spent much of her life escaping. Her father, Gerald MacCarthy, was an officer in the Royal Artillery and was killed in action in North Africa during the Second World War in 1943.^[2] Fiona MacCarthy, her sister and mother, Yolande, lived in London and then Scotland before returning to London.^[3] Her grandmother, the Baroness de Belabre, was a daughter of Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet, who built and owned the Dorchester Hotel, and much of her childhood was spent in the hotel.

Supposedly safe from bombing raids, her family took refuge there during The Blitz.^[2]

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