Jill Paton Walsh

The Right Honourable The Lady Hemingford CBE FRSL
Paton Walsh in 2011
Born	Gillian Honorine Mary Bliss (1937-04-29)29 April 1937 London, England
Died	18 October 2020(2020-10-18) (aged 83) Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England
Nationality	English
Occupation	Author
Known for	Knowledge of Angels
Spouses	Antony Paton Walsh ​ ​ (m. 1961; died 2003)​ [1] John Rowe Townsend ​ ​ (m. 2004; died 2014)​ Nicholas Herbert, 3rd Baron Hemingford ​ ​ (m. 2020)​
Children	3

Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford, CBE, FRSL (née Bliss; 29 April 1937 – 18 October 2020), known professionally as Jill Paton Walsh, was an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for her Booker Prize-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels and for the Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries that continued the work of Dorothy L. Sayers.