![]() ![]() Her brother related that in the convent Fairchild was forced to abandon her love of music and playing in order to concentrate on her faith and she left the order following a breakdown. In 1939, Fairchild was a Religious Sister and schoolteacher at St Gilda's Catholic School in Yeovil, Somerset. Later in 1936 she was at St Joseph's Priory on Harrow Road West in Dorking. In 1936, as Mary Teresa, she became a novice in the Convent of the Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls on Gloucester Avenue in Regent's Park (later the Japanese School in London and now the North Bridge House School), a short distance from Gloucester Crescent where she famously returned decades later. Ī gifted pianist, according to her brother, around 1932 the middle-class and well-spoken Margaret Fairchild studied at the École Normale de Musique de Paris in Paris under the virtuoso Alfred Cortot, and it has been said that she later played in a promenade concert however, she does not appear in the BBC's online Proms performance archive. ![]() Her brother was Leopold George Fairchild (1908–1994). Margaret Fairchild was born in 1911 in Hellingly in East Sussex, the daughter of Harriett ( née Burgess 1879–1963) and George Bryant Fairchild (1866–1944), a surveyor and sanitary inspector. ![]() The former Convent of the Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls on Gloucester Avenue where Fairchild was a novice in 1936, now the North Bridge House School. ![]()
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