Beryl Manthorp in 1996
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A prominent Norwich ballet teacher who taught hundreds of pupils to dance over eight decades has died just ahead of her 100th birthday.
Beryl Manthorp, the founder and former principal of the city s Guildhall School of Dancing, was a life member of the Royal Academy of Dancing, the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing and a recipient of the Royal Academy’s President’s Award for services to the academy.
Beryl Manthorp has died aged 99
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Born February 22, 1921, in Colchester, Essex, she was the only child of Harry and Felicia Manthorp.
Her love of dancing began at the age of four when her parents were encouraged to enroll her in ballet classes to correct a slight curvature of the spine. At the end of her second class, she declared she would teach ballet when she grew up.