Margaret Augusta Eliot (26 February 1914 – 27 February 2011) was an English music teacher and musician. She was a professor of

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at the

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, and her best-known student (from 1948) was

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; in 2011, just before her death at age 97, she appeared in the documentary film ''

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''. In the early 1960s she also taught

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successfully play the recorder, which he later used to effect, for the recording of, "

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". Eliot was also an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music.

Family

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,GRO Register of Marriages: SEP 1943 1b 4 PANCRAS - Richard Asher = Margaret Eliot she married Dr

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(1912–1969); the couple had three children: #

Peter Asher Peter Asher, (born 22 June 1944) is an English guitarist, singer, manager and record producer. He came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the pop music vocal duo Peter and Gordon before going on to a successful career as a manager and r ...

(born 1944), who was one half of the pop duo

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and successful music producer; #

Jane Asher Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946)The International Who's Who of Women, 3rd edition, ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, 2002, p. 29 is an English actress and author. She achieved early fame as a child actress and has worked extensively in f ...

(born 1946), the film and TV actress, novelist #Clare Asher (born 1948), the radio actress.

References

1914 births 2011 deaths English classical oboists Women oboists Academics of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Honorary Members of the Royal Academy of Music Margaret Eliot 20th-century classical musicians {{woodwind-musician-stub