Elsie Southgate

Elsie Southgate (23 January 1880 – 5 May 1946) was a British violinist. Around 1900 at the age of 10, she won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, and made her first concert appearance with the Queen's Hall Orchestra, under Sir Henry Wood in 1905. In addition to her concert work she had a successful music hall career, making her variety debut at the London Pavilion in 1910.

Elsie Muriel Southgate was born in Marylebone on 23 January 1880 the daughter of Frank and Charlotte Southgate, her father was a "Professor of Music".

On her variety tours she was billed as "Elsie Southgate, The Royal Violinist", and, in 1926, she toured the vaudeville theatres of the United States and Canada.

She married Charles Edward Pearse in 1904 in Paddington and they had two daughters, Olga Odin-Pearse born in October 1908 and the actress Daphne Odin-Pearse in June 1909. Her husband had died by the time of the 1911 Census. Elsie died in Hampstead on 5 May 1946 aged 66.[1]