Margaret Moncrieff was a Scottish

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 cellist and author

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 writing under the pseudonym

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 Helen McClelland and writing novels in the Chalet School

Chalet School

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 series.

She was also professor

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 of cello at the Royal College of Music

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. Her father was Lord Moncrieff

Alexander Moncrieff, Lord Moncrieff

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In 1957 she married Alexander Kelly

Alexander Kelly (pianist)

Alexander Kelly was a British pianist, composer and former head of keyboard studies at the Royal Academy of Music....

 (1929–1996) a pianist, composer and former head of keyboard studies at the Royal Academy of Music

Royal Academy of Music

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. They had two children, the cellist Alison Moncrieff Kelly, and Catriona Kelly, Professor of Russian Literature at New College, Oxford. She also had two grandchildren, Camilla Davan Wetton and Alexander Davan Wetton.