Richard Whittington (12 February 1948 – 3 January 2011), was a British food writer.
Whittington was born on 12 February 1948, in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, to Jeffery and Florence Whittington, the youngest of four children.
[1] He attended Essex University for a year, studying American literature, but left to begin a career in journalism.
[1] At the age of 25, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and in his last 20 years he required the use of a wheelchair.
[1] Whittington died on 3 January 2011, aged 62.