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English hotelier, restaurateur, broadcaster and food writer

This article is about the English hotelier. For the New Zealand artist, see Ruth Watson (artist).

For the Canadian composer, see Ruth Watson Henderson.

Ruth Watson is an English hotelier, restaurateur, broadcaster and food writer.

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Early life and career

Born in London, Ruth Watson was educated in London and at Westonbirt School in Gloucestershire. After taking up a career in graphic design, she became an inspector for the Good Food Guide.^[1]

In 1983, Watson and her husband David bought Hintlesham Hall in Hintlesham, Suffolk, as a restaurant and cookery school from Robert Carrier,^[1] which over six years they turned into a 33-room hotel, with an 18-hole golf course.

In 1986 she featured with her family in a Bisto gravy advert. In 1990 they bought the Fox and Goose Inn at Fressingfield, launching it as one of Britain's first gastropubs.^[2] In November 1999, Watson and he