Margaret Eliot | |
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Born | Margaret Augusta Eliot 26 February 1914 [1]
London, England |
Died | 27 February 2011[2] | (aged 97)
Occupation | Professor of Oboe |
Spouse | |
Children | 3, including Peter and Jane Asher |
Margaret Augusta Eliot (26 February 1914 – 27 February 2011) was an English music teacher and musician. She was a professor of oboe at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and her best-known student (from 1948) was George Martin; in 2011, just before her death at age 97, she appeared in the documentary film Produced by George Martin. [3] In the early 1960s she also taught Paul McCartney to successfully play the recorder, which he later used to effect, for the recording of, " The Fool on the Hill". [4]
Eliot was also an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music.
Margaret Eliot was born to Hon. Edward Granville Eliot (1878–1958) - a younger brother of both 7th and 8th Earls of St Germans - and his wife Clare Louise née Phelips (1883–1927). She was a great granddaughter of Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans (1798–1877).
On 27 July 1943, [5] she married Dr Richard Asher (1912–1969); the couple had three children:
Margaret Eliot | |
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Born | Margaret Augusta Eliot 26 February 1914 [1]
London, England |
Died | 27 February 2011[2] | (aged 97)
Occupation | Professor of Oboe |
Spouse | |
Children | 3, including Peter and Jane Asher |
Margaret Augusta Eliot (26 February 1914 – 27 February 2011) was an English music teacher and musician. She was a professor of oboe at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and her best-known student (from 1948) was George Martin; in 2011, just before her death at age 97, she appeared in the documentary film Produced by George Martin. [3] In the early 1960s she also taught Paul McCartney to successfully play the recorder, which he later used to effect, for the recording of, " The Fool on the Hill". [4]
Eliot was also an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music.
Margaret Eliot was born to Hon. Edward Granville Eliot (1878–1958) - a younger brother of both 7th and 8th Earls of St Germans - and his wife Clare Louise née Phelips (1883–1927). She was a great granddaughter of Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans (1798–1877).
On 27 July 1943, [5] she married Dr Richard Asher (1912–1969); the couple had three children: