Candida Tobin Hon FTCL, LTCL (5 January 1926 – 14 December 2008) was the author of the Tobin Method, a music education system for teaching music theory and practice to students of all ages and abilities.
Personal life
Tobin was born Doreen E. Pugh in
Chingford,
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...
on 5 January 1926 and grew up there with elder sisters Phyllis and Barbara.
Tobin was married twice, firstly to Derrick Llewelyn Mason (1924-1989) in 1949, and divorced soon after without any issue.
She subsequently married John M. Tobin in 1960, and had two children, Penelope A. and David Richard Tobin.
Tobin died at her UK home in
Sawbridgeworth
Sawbridgeworth is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, close to the border with Essex. It is east of Hertford and north of Epping. It is the northernmost part of the Greater London Built-up Area.
History
Prior to the Norman ...
,
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ...
on 14 December 2008, aged 82, of cancer.
References
External links
Tobinmusic.co.uk, including an obituary''The Guardian'' obituary, 26 January 2009
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1926 births
2008 deaths
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
Alumni of Trinity College of Music
British music educators
People from London
People from Chingford
Deaths from cancer in England
People from Sawbridgeworth