Margaret Moncrieff

(Helen) Margaret Moncrieff (6 February 1921 – 12 November 2008) was a Scottish cellist and author writing under the pseudonym Helen McClelland and writing novels in the Chalet School series.^[1]

Helen Margaret Moncrieff was born in 1921 in Edinburgh, Scotland, daughter of Alexander Moncrieff, Lord Moncrieff, and Helen, née McClelland Adams, formerly Spens.^[2][3]

In London, Moncrieff studied the cello at the Royal College of Music with Ivor James, and then in Paris, with Pierre Fournier.^[2] She went on to a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher.

Moncrieff was a professor of cello at the Royal College of Music.^[3]

When Moncrieff was in her 60s, she became a writer.^[3] In 2003, Moncrieff wrote her memoir.

In 1957, Moncrieff married Alexander Kelly (1929–1996) a pianist, composer, and later head of keyboard studies at the Royal Academy of Music.^[4] They had two children: cellist Alison Moncrieff Kelly, and Catriona Kelly, Professor of Russian at New College, Oxford.^[1]

• 2001: Time and Again^[5]
• 2003: Worlds Apart: Memoirs of Margaret Moncrieff Kelly^[6]

Montcrieff's entries in the series include:^[7]

• Joey and Patricia: A Reunion in Guernsey (2000)
• Visitors to the Chalet School (2004)