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Diamond was the recipient of the HealthWatch Award for 2000.<ref name=HealthWatch_Award>[http://www.healthwatch-uk.org/awardwinners/johndiamond.html The HealthWatch Award 2000: John Diamond] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516071026/http://www.healthwatch-uk.org/awardwinners/johndiamond.html |date=16 May 2008 }} – [[HealthWatch]]. Includes his full presentation, in which he tells about his encounter with a believer in [[alternative medicine]].</ref>
Diamond was the recipient of the HealthWatch Award for 2000.<ref name=HealthWatch_Award>[http://www.healthwatch-uk.org/awardwinners/johndiamond.html The HealthWatch Award 2000: John Diamond] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516071026/http://www.healthwatch-uk.org/awardwinners/johndiamond.html |date=16 May 2008 }} – [[HealthWatch]]. Includes his full presentation, in which he tells about his encounter with a believer in [[alternative medicine]].</ref>


[[Bandolier (journal)|Bandolier]] reviewed and recommended Diamond's book ''C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too...''<ref name=Bandolier>[http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/band71/b71-11.html Book Reviews: John Diamond's C and ....] – [[Bandolier (journal)|Bandolier]]</ref>
[[Bandolier (journal)|Bandolier]] reviewed and recommended Diamond's book ''C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too...''<ref name=Bandolier>[http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/band71/b71-11.html Book Reviews: John Diamond's C and ....] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20121223101516/http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/band71/b71-11.html |date=23 December 2012 }} – [[Bandolier (journal)|Bandolier]]</ref>


Diamond died of throat cancer in [[City of Westminster|Westminster]], aged 47. On 3 September 2002 Nigella Lawson opened the '''John Diamond Voice Laboratory''' at the [[Royal Marsden Hospital]] in London, where he had been treated.
Diamond died of throat cancer in [[City of Westminster|Westminster]], aged 47. On 3 September 2002 Nigella Lawson opened the '''John Diamond Voice Laboratory''' at the [[Royal Marsden Hospital]] in London, where he had been treated.
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* [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,445951,00.html ''The Diamond geezer''] by [[Victoria Coren]] (4 March 2001) in ''[[The Observer]]''
* [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,445951,00.html ''The Diamond geezer''] by [[Victoria Coren]] (4 March 2001) in ''[[The Observer]]''
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1198541.stm ''John Diamond in his own words''] (2 March 2001) from BBC News online
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1198541.stm ''John Diamond in his own words''] (2 March 2001) from BBC News online
* [http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/people/john_diamond.htm ''John Diamond – Oral Cancer Foundation'']
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051029195741/http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/people/john_diamond.htm ''John Diamond – Oral Cancer Foundation'']


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Revision as of 16:38, 14 December 2017

Not to be confused with
John Diamond, Baron Diamond or John Diamond (doctor)
.

John Diamond
Born(1953-05-10)10 May 1953
Sunday Times, Daily Mirror
Spouse(s)Nigella Lawson
(m. 1992–2001; his death)
ChildrenCosima Diamond
Bruno Diamond

John Diamond (10 May 1953 – 2 March 2001), was a British journalist and broadcaster. He was married to the food writer and TV cook Nigella Lawson from 1992 until his death from cancer in 2001.

Education and training

Diamond was the son of a biochemist and a fashion designer, and had a secular Jewish upbringing.

Upper Clapton and Woodford Green, he then attended the City of London School[2] and trained as an English teacher at Trent Park College of Education, now part of Middlesex University
. Later he taught at an all-girls school Dalston Mount Comprehensive, before switching to journalism.

Journalism

Diamond wrote a regular column for the Saturday edition of

The Sunday Times. They married in Venice
in 1992.

Illness, awards, and death

In 1997, Diamond was diagnosed with

Samuel Johnson Prize for his book C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too.... A BBC documentary was filmed for Inside Story which followed him through various treatments, and showed his frustration with his speech difficulties following throat, and later tongue, surgery.[citation needed
]

C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too... was adapted into a play by

Jewish Chronicle.[citation needed
]

Diamond was the recipient of the HealthWatch Award for 2000.[4]

Bandolier reviewed and recommended Diamond's book C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too...[5]

Diamond died of throat cancer in Westminster, aged 47. On 3 September 2002 Nigella Lawson opened the John Diamond Voice Laboratory at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, where he had been treated.

Bibliography

  • John Diamond, C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too..., Vermilion, 1999 (
    ISBN 0-09-181665-3
    )
  • John Diamond,
    ISBN 0-09-942833-4
    ).

References

  1. ^ Jay Rayner and Roy Greenslade Obituary: John Diamond, The Guardian, 3 March 2001
  2. ^ "Tribute to John Diamond". lastingtribute.co.uk. Archived from the original on 16 December 2009. Retrieved 12 June 2009.
  3. ^ a b Foreword reprinted in his book A Devil's Chaplain (2003).
  4. HealthWatch. Includes his full presentation, in which he tells about his encounter with a believer in alternative medicine
    .
  5. ^ Book Reviews: John Diamond's C and .... Archived 23 December 2012 at archive.today – Bandolier

External links

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