Jane Asher Parents: Who Are Richard Asher & Margaret Eliot?

Jane Asher has two children. They are Richard Asher and Margaret Eliot.

Meet Jane Asher’s Parents

• Richard Asher

Richard Asher was an eminent British endocrinologist and haematologist. As the senior physician responsible for the mental observation ward at the Central Middlesex Hospital he described and named Munchausen syndrome in a 1951 article in the Lancet.

The Asher family home above his private consulting rooms at 57 Wimpole Street was briefly notable when Paul McCartney of The Beatles lived there in 1964-66, at the height of Beatlemania, during his relationship with Jane Asher.

• Margaret Eliot

Margaret Eliot 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; in 2011, just before her death at 97, she appeared in the documentary film Produced by George Martin. In the early 1960s she also taught Paul McCartney to successfully play the recorder, which he later used to effect, for the recording of The Fool on the Hill.