Dorothy F. Hollingsworth (original) (raw)

Dorothy Frances Hollingsworth OBE (10 May 1916 – 16 February 1994) was a British nutritionist and scientist, who demonstrated that the quality of the British diet was greatly improved by rationing. Hollingsworth both documented and contributed to the improvements in British nutrition during the Second World War. She worked with Jack Drummond at the Ministry of Food during the 1940s, and completed a revised edition of The Englishman's Food after Drummond's death. For twenty-one years, she was responsible for the nutrition bureau at the Ministry of Food and later, in the 1970s, became the director of the British Nutrition Foundation.