June Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair

Conductor; Born December 29, 1913; Died June 22, 2009. June Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, who has died aged 95, was the founder and conductor of the Haddo House Choral and Operatic Society and the long-presiding doyenne of choral music in the north of Scotland. Musically active in Aberdeenshire from 1945, she famously recruited her singers from the villages and farms by which her husband's family seat (20 miles north of Aberdeen) was surrounded, moulding them into an entity with the first of her many carol concerts in the Haddo House Chapel.