Penelope Hobhouse

Penelope Hobhouse MBE (born 20 November 1929), née Chichester-Clark, is a British garden writer, designer, lecturer and television presenter. Early life Born into an Anglo-Irish family in Moyola Park, Castledawson, she is the daughter of James Lenox-Conyngham Chichester-Clark and Marion Caroline Dehra Chichester (1904-1976). She is also the sister of Lord Moyola, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1971, and Sir Robin Chichester-Clark. She was educated at North Foreland Lodge and Girton College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in economics in 1951. Career