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- Birth nameMargaret Augusta Eliot
- Margaret Augusta Eliot (26 February 1914, St. Pancrass, London - 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 was George Martin. Eliot was an also honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music.
Margaret was born to Hon. Edward Granville Eliot (1872-1958) - 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, she married Dr Richard Alan John Asher (1912-1969); the couple had three children:
Peter Asher (born 1944), who was one half of the pop duo Peter and Gordon and successful music producer; Jane Asher(born 1946), film, stage and TV actress, novelist and cake decorator; and Clare Asher (born 1948), radio actress.
In 2011, just before her death at age 97, she appeared in the documentary film 'Produced by George Martin'.
- IMDb mini biography by: MCTaylor
- Children
- RelativesKatie Scarfe(Grandchild)Alex Scarfe(Grandchild)Victoria Asher(Grandchild)
- Actress Katie Scarfe and musician Victoria Asher are her granddaughters.
- She taught oboe to George Martin long before he had any connection with The Beatles and that Paul McCartney began to date her daughter Jane Asher.
- Mother of Peter Asher, who was one half of the pop duo Peter and Gordon and actress, novelist and cake decorator Jane Asher.
- Her sister Susan Eliot married her husband Richard Asher's brother Thomas George Horsey Asher.
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