Margaret Eliot
Margaret Eliot | |
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| Born | Margaret Augusta Eliot 26 February 1914 London, England |
| Died | 27 February 2011 (aged 97) |
| Occupation | Professor of Oboe |
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| Children | 3, 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. 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".
Eliot was also an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music.