Thea King

Born: 26th December 1925 Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
Died: 26th June 2007
British clarinetist. Having begun her career as a pianist, she returned to the piano in later years. Appointed a dame in 2001.
In January 1953, she married [a=Frederick Thurston] (her clarinet tutor at [l290263]), but he died from lung cancer in December of the same year. She never remarried.