Margaret Eliot
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image 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.[1] 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".[2]
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) and Spencer Ponsonby-Fane.
On 27 July 1943,[3] she married Dr Richard Asher (1912–1969); the couple had three children:
- Peter Asher (born 1944), who was one half of the pop duo Peter & Gordon and successful music producer;
- Jane Asher (born 1946), the film and TV actress, novelist, and former fiancée of Paul McCartney
- Clare Asher (born 1948), the radio actress.
References
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- ↑ 'George Martin's Early Days', clip from Arena with Margaret Eliot
- ↑ Brown, Craig. One, Two, Three, Four, The Beatles in Time (2020), p 116
- ↑ GRO Register of Marriages: SEP 1943 1b 4 PANCRAS - Richard Asher = Margaret Eliot
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