Ian Carmichael - Personal Life

Personal Life

Ian Carmichael was married twice: firstly to Jean Pyman (Pym) McLean, from 1943 until her death in 1983 (they had two daughters, Lee and Sally) and then to the novelist Kate Fenton, from 1992 until his death in 2010. Ian Carmichael died, at the age of 89, at his home in the Esk Valley on the North York Moors on 5 February 2010. He had five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. His autobiography, Will the Real Ian Carmichael... was published in 1979.

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