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Audain, Ida Augusta (1854?–1932), harpist  

Kathleen Chater

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10 October 2019

Audain, Ida Augusta (1854?–1932), harpist, was born around 1854 in Kingstown, St Vincent, the daughter of a merchant, John Audain, later a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of St Vincent and owner of the Richmond Hill estate, and his black wife, ...

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Audain, Ida Augusta (1854?–1932)  

Maker: Herbert Rose Barraud

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10 October 2019

Ida Audain (1854?–1932), by Herbert Rose Barraud

Clive Morley Collection

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Brown, (Elizabeth) Iona (1941–2004), violinist and conductor  

Raymond Holden

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Published in print:
05 March 2009
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03 January 2008

Brown, (Elizabeth) Iona (1941–2004), violinist and conductor, was born on 7 January 1941 at the Cedars Nursing Home, Manor Road, Salisbury, Wiltshire, the first of four children of Antony Francis Brown, pianist and organist, and his wife, Fiona Mary, née Whitham, violinist. At the time of her birth her parents lived at ...

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Cohen, Eta (1916–2012), violin teacher and author  

Lyn Fletcher

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07 January 2016

Cohen, Eta (1916–2012), violin teacher and author, was born on 13 March 1916 at 26 Azalea Terrace North, Sunderland, one of four daughters of Isaac Cohen, master jeweller, and his wife, Marie, née Hurwitz. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. Her father had a passion for music, and when ...

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D'Arányi, Jelly Eva (1893–1966)  

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

See Fachiri [née D'Arányi], Adila Adrienne Adalbertina Maria

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Du Pré, Jacqueline Mary (1945–1987)  

Maker: Godfrey MacDomnic

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
Jacqueline Mary Du Pré (1945–1987) by Godfrey MacDomnic, 1967 © Godfrey MacDomnic / National Portrait Gallery, London

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Du Pré, Jacqueline Mary (1945–1987), cellist  

Richard Wigmore

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Du Pré, Jacqueline Mary (1945–1987), cellist, was born at 165 Banbury Road, Oxford, on 26 January 1945, the younger daughter and the second of the three children of Derek du Pré, a financial writer and editor, and Iris Maud, née Greep, a pianist and composer of music for children, who taught at the ...

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Ewart, Florence Maude (1864–1949), violinist and composer  

T. G. B. Osborn

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Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

See Ewart, Alfred James

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Fachiri [née D'Arányi], Adila Adrienne Adalbertina Maria (1886–1962), violinist  

Ivor Newton

revised by Robert Brown

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Published in print:
23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Fachiri [née D'Arányi], Adila Adrienne Adalbertina Maria (1886–1962), violinist, was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 26 February 1886, the eldest of the three daughters of Taksony Arányi de Hunyadvar, chief of police in Budapest, and his wife, Adrienne Nievarovicz de Ligenza, the fourteenth child of a Pole of good family from the ...

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Fisher, Ray Galbraith (1940–2011), folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist  

Ken Hunt

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08 January 2015

Fisher, Ray Galbraith (1940–2011), folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist, was born on 26 November 1940 at Redlands Hospital, Glasgow, the second of six daughters and third of seven children of John Fisher, a retired police inspector, and his wife, Marion (Morag), née Macdonald (1917–2008)...

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Fleming, Amaryllis Marie-Louise (1925?–1999), cellist  

G. R. Seaman

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Published in print:
23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Fleming, Amaryllis Marie-Louise (1925?–1999), cellist, was probably born on 10 December 1925, possibly in Switzerland, the daughter of the London socialite Evelyn Beatrice Ste Croix (Eve) Fleming, née Rose (1885–1964), whose husband, Major Valentine Fleming, was killed in the First World War. Her four half-brothers included the travel writer ...

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Fleming, Amaryllis Marie-Louise (1925?–1999)  

Maker: Thurston Hopkins

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
Amaryllis Marie-Louise Fleming (1925?–1999) by Thurston Hopkins, 1953 [at her promenade concert début] Getty Images – Thurston Hopkins

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Goossens, (Annie) Sidonie (1899–2004)  

Maker: Mayotte Magnus

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05 March 2009
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03 January 2008
(Annie) Sidonie Goossens (1899–2004) by Mayotte Magnus, 1977 © Mayotte Magnus; collection National Portrait Gallery, London

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Goossens, (Annie) Sidonie [Sid] (1899–2004), harpist  

John Marson

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05 March 2009
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03 January 2008

Goossens, (Annie) Sidonie [Sid] (1899–2004), harpist, was born at 78 Seaview Road, Liscard, Cheshire, on 19 October 1899, the fifth and youngest surviving child of Eugène Goossens (1867–1958), violinist and conductor, and his wife, Annie, née Cook (1860–1946), opera singer. Her father was conductor of the ...

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Hall, Marie Pauline (1884–1956), violinist  

Jean M. Haig-Whiteley

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Published in print:
23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Hall, Marie Pauline (1884–1956), violinist, was born on 8 April 1884 at 15 Victoria Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, the daughter of Edward Felix Handley Hall and his wife, Helen Parsons. She was born into a musical family. Her father was a harpist in the ...

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Hallé [other married name Norman-Neruda], Wilma [née Vilemína Maria Franziška Nerudová], Lady Hallé (1838?–1911), violinist  

Michael Kennedy

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Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Hallé [other married name Norman-Neruda], Wilma [née Vilemína Maria Franziška Nerudová], Lady Hallé (1838?–1911), violinist, was born on 21 March, probably in 1838 rather than in 1839 as is often stated. She was the third child and second daughter of the ten children of ...

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Hallé, Wilma, Lady Hallé (1838?–1911)  

Maker: Barraud

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
Wilma Hallé, Lady Hallé (1838?–1911) by Barraud, pubd 1889 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Harrison, Beatrice Bohun (1892–1965), cellist  

Anne Pimlott Baker

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Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Harrison, Beatrice Bohun (1892–1965), cellist, was born on 9 December 1892 in Roorkee, in the North-Western Provinces of India, the second of the four daughters of Colonel John H. C. Harrison RE (d. 1936), at that time principal of the College of Sappers and Miners...

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Lascelles, Patricia Elizabeth [née Tuckwell; first married name Shmith], countess of Harewood (1926–2018)  

Robert Ponsonby

revised

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Published online:
10 March 2022

See Lascelles, George Henry Hubert, seventh earl of Harewood

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Liddell, Nona Patricia (1927–2017), violinist  

Robin Stowell

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Published online:
14 January 2021

Liddell, Nona Patricia (1927–2017), violinist, was born at 11 Elers Road, Ealing, London, on 9 June 1927, the daughter of William Temple Liddell (1887–1962) and his wife, Dorothy Emily, née Jones (1894–1992). Her mother was born and raised in ...