Diana Margaret Parikian (née Carbutt, formerly Marriner; 20 October 1926 – 3 April 2012) was a British antiquarian bookseller.
She grew up in Chelsea and was educated at Francis Holland School for Girls and North Foreland Lodge.
[1] Parikian started as a bookseller when she found a dusty composite volume of eight Erasmus first editions for about £9 in the back room of a bookshop.
The couple had one son, clarinettist Andrew Marriner, and one daughter, writer Susie Harries.
[1] In 1957, she married the violinist and academic Manoug Parikian (1920–1987), with whom she had two sons, Stepan (Step) and Levon (Lev).