Margaret Emily Holton (nee Whitlock) (1920-2004)

She attended Southbroom Primary School and Devizes Secondary School and took up music at an early age. Margaret learnt the piano, violin and singing, while also having a keen interest in sport, particularly cricket and hockey. Although selected for the Hampshire Ladies Cricket Team, she never played, due to the outbreak of the War.

After leaving school, she became an income tax officer, leaving home at 16 to work in Southampton. There, at the start of the War, she met her future husband Percy Grey Holton, who was serving in the Royal Engineers. Margaret was in Southampton at the time of the Blitz and was later relocated to Cardiff. At the end of the War, she married Percy, on 24th November 1945 at St. Mary's Congregational Chapel, in Devizes and they moved to Stepps near Glasgow, then some years later to Edinburgh.

Margaret began to teach the piano and recorder and worked in various Edinburgh schools, including West Pilton Primary, Daniel Stewart's College and George Watson's College, becoming best known for her work with recorder groups. She was also active in various other musical groups, as a recorder player, singer and accompanist.

After retiring from school recorder teaching, she continued to teach piano pupils at home and also had a strong interest in painting, exhibiting with the Corstorphine Art Group of which she was a member for many years.

Suffering from a number of health problems, she eventually moved to a Nursing Home in Murrayfield, but died very unexpectedly, only a few weeks later, on Christmas Day 2004.

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