Personal Life
Given the forename Jean, she dropped it for her middle name Gareth while still quite young. Her date of birth is not known but in 2008 she was said to be in her sixties and The Sunday Telegraph reported that she was aged 65 in 2005. She is described as being a very private person who shuns the limelight and refuses to be interviewed by the media. She lives in Kentish Town, North London, with her husband Bill (Mellen Chamberlain) Peirce (b. 1930), a writer and photographer, son of the American painter Waldo Peirce and his third wife, Alzira Peirce. They have two adult sons, Nicholas and Zachary, the latter a painter and photographer who was born in London in 1974.
Gareth Peirce's maiden name was Webb. She is a collateral descendant of Sidney and Beatrice Webb.
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