Margaret Eliot

Margaret Eliot
Born
Margaret Augusta Eliot

(1914-02-26)26 February 1914[1]
London, England
Died27 February 2011(2011-02-27) (aged 97) [2]
OccupationProfessor of Oboe
Spouse
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(m. 1943; died 1969)​
Children3, including Peter and Jane Asher

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.[3] 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".[4]

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

  1. ^ GRO Register of Births: MAR 1914 1b 161(?) PANCRAS, Margaret A. Eliot, mmn = Phelips
  2. ^ "For Margaret".
  3. ^ 'George Martin's Early Days', clip from Arena with Margaret Eliot
  4. ^ Brown, Craig. One, Two, Three, Four, The Beatles in Time (2020), p 116