Margaret Asher

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'.