A WOMAN who served as president of Cowes RNLI Guild and was a resident of the Isle of Wight for 50 years has died in Salisbury District Hospital aged 82. Elizabeth Margaret Barrett, better known as Elsa, was born on the south coast of Ireland into a large, well connected family which included an MP, a Bishop and an Irish rugby international. Her father was a leader of the town council and a businessman, on his untimely death her mother founded and ran a popular seaside hotel. Mrs Barrett went to a boarding school and gained a reputation as a proficient tennis player.