Margaret Eliot, British music teacher and musician died she was , 97.

Margaret Augusta Eliot  was a retired English music teacher and musician  died she was , 97.. She was a professor of oboe at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama; her best known student was George Martin. She was an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music.

 

(26 February 1914 — 27 February 2011)

Family

Margaret Eliot was born to Edward Granville Eliot - a younger brother of both 7th and 8th Earls of St Germans - and his wife Clare Louise née Phelips. She was a great granddaughter of Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans (1798-1877).
On 27 July, 1943,^[3] she married Dr Richard Asher (1912-1969); the couple had three children:

1. Peter Asher (born 1944), who was one half of the pop duo Peter & Gordon and successful music producer;
2. Jane Asher (born 1946), the film and TV actress, novelist
3. Clare Asher (born 1948), the radio actress.

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