Dame Ruth Railton was a British

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 music director

Music director

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 and conductor. She founded the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in 1948. She was an adjudicator of the Federation of Music Festivals from 1946-1974.

She was one of four daughters and one son, David, born to the Rev. David Railton, the son of George Scott Railton

George Scott Railton

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, who was second in command of William

William Booth

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 and Catherine Booth

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's Salvation Army

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In 1962 she married Cecil Harmsworth King

Cecil Harmsworth King

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