Candida Tobin
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Candida Tobin Hon FTCL, LTCL [clarification needed] (5 January 1926 – 14 December 2008) was the author of the Tobin Method, a music education system for teaching music theory and practice to students of all ages and abilities.
Personal life
Tobin was born Doreen E. Pugh in Chingford, Essex on 5 January 1926 and grew up there with elder sisters Phyllis and Barbara. Tobin was married twice, firstly to Derrick Llewelyn Mason (1924-1989) in 1949, and divorced soon after without any issue. She subsequently married John M. Tobin in 1960, and had two children, Penelope A. & David Richard Tobin.
Tobin died at her UK home in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire on 14 December 2008, aged 82, of cancer.[1]
References
- ^ "Notice of Candida Tobin's death". Archived from the original on 30 December 2008. Retrieved 19 December 2008.