Bamber Gascoigne Cause of Death

In January 2022, Bamber Gascoigne was hospitalised for three weeks with pneumonia. Following his hospitalisation, Gascoigne’s health drastically declined.

He died at his home in Richmond on February 8, 2022, at the age of 87. Stephen Fry led the tributes to Gascoigne, saying he was “such an elegant, intelligent man”. Victoria Coren Mitchell, host of the BBC quiz show, Only Connect said: “No quiz host ever seemed more like they could answer all the questions themselves.”

Bamber was the author of Murgatreud’s Empire, a 1972 satirical novel concerning an entrepreneur who finds an island of pygmies, and trades them arms for treasure, recreating the development of European medieval weaponry and armour.

This was originally written as a script, although the play was abandoned because of the impossibility of finishing suitable performers for a cast of forty pygmies.

Bamber was the writer and presenter for the TV series of six  The Great Moghuls (1990), a study of the Mughal Empire of India. The series was based on Bamber’s 1971 book of the same name, which features photographs by his wife.