FRANCES WILSON

Josh Widdicombe is the first subject of the new season of Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC1)

I had no idea who he was either (apparently he’s a comedian). And Josh, in turn, had no idea that his great-grandmother, whose maiden name was Baring-Gould, was a scion of Barings Bank, or that his ten-timesgreat-grandfather was the 1st Earl of Holland (the London park, not the country).

‘You are,’ explains