Margaret Ismay was an

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singer. While a student at the Royal Academy of Music, she was awarded the Academy's

Gilbert Betjemann Prize The Gilbert Betjemann Prize (originally the Gilbert R. Betjemann Prize, also referred to as the Gilbert Betjemann Medal) is a gold medal awarded by the Royal Academy of Music (RA) "for operatic singing". The award was founded in 1897 by G.H. Bet ...

"for operatic singing" in 1909. She later had the medal converted into a

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by Cartier. She appeared in ''

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'' in 1910. In 2013 her great-nephew showed the medal on an episode of the BBC's ''

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''.

References

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