ABSTRACT
Peggie Sampson, born in Edinburgh, studied with Guilhermina Suggia in London and Portugal. Suggia's students in Portugal included Pilar Torres, Madalena de Sa, Maria Alice Ferreira, Maria da Conceigao Macedo, Maria Beires, Celso de Carvalho, Filipe Loriente, Carlos de Figueiredo, and Isabel Cerqueira. A concert series that Suggia organized to bring Malcolm Sargent to Portugal to conduct the Orquestra Sinfonica da Emissor Nacional in January of 1943 was another quasi-diplomatic mission in which she participated. The Evening News carried a picture of Suggia playing with the orchestra on its front page. In the final analysis, Suggia's legacy to younger cellists is best represented less in her teaching than in her general function as a role model, particularly as a role model for female cellists, and in the several scholarship funds to which she bequeathed the majority of her estate. Zara Nelsova remembered her as an inspiring and generous advocate.
