Claim: Lavinia Derwent, born Elizabeth Dodd at 1909 Cheviot Hills, a range of uplands straddling the Anglo-Scottish border between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders, was a British writer and broadcaster.
Evidence: Elizabeth Dodd
1909
Cheviot Hills, Scotland She was born in an isolated farmhouse in the Cheviot Hills some seven miles from Jedburgh and began making up stories about animals at an early age. Writer and broadcaster British The Cheviot Hills (/ˈtʃivɪət/), or sometimes The Cheviots, are a range of uplands straddling the Anglo-Scottish border between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.