Cassandra Jardine

Cassandra Caroline Mary Jardine (16 November 1954 - 29 May 2012) was a British journalist, best known as a contributor to The Daily Telegraph over a twenty-year period. Born in London, the youngest of three daughters, her parents were Anne, a Conservative councillor in Kensington and Chelsea, and Christopher Jardine, a civil servant. In 1972, as the Under Secretary at the Department of Trade and Industry, although later "vindicated", he was accused of "negligence" after a car insurance company collapsed.[2] Cassandra Jardine was educated at the Godolphin and Latymer School and read English at Newnham College, Cambridge. After Jardine graduated from Cambridge University in 1976, she became an assistant to the Daily Telegraph contributor T.E. Utley and later spent a period working for Cosmopolitan, Unilever's internal publication and Business magazine. She returned to the Daily Telegraph on 29 March 1989. She was diagnosed with lung cancer in July 2010, specifically adenocarcinoma.