

He said arrangements for her funeral would be announced later. Lloyd Webber had given instructions that her body be left to medical research. Lloyd Webber and her husband lived in an apartment block in central London’s South Kensington district.īrown said Mrs. Lloyd Webber’s husband became a professor at London’s Royal College of Music and the director of the London College of Music. Viola passed on to the Andrew her love of the theater and took him to see the big American musicals of the day like ″The King and I″ and ″South Pacific″ when they came to London. He next married Madeleine Gurdon in February 1991. His second marriage was to Sarah Brightman, the singer, in 1984. Lloyd Webber’s sister, retired actress Viola Johnstone. The couple has two children: Imogen Llyod Webber and Nicholas Llyod Webber. Later, Andrew came increasingly under the influence of Mrs. He also has three children with his current and third wife Madeleine, Alastair Adam Lloyd Webber (born ), William Richard Lloyd Webber (born 24 August 1993), and Isabella Aurora Lloyd Webber (born 30 April 1996). Lloyd Webber, who became a piano teacher with many gifted students, taught Andrew to play the piano and a violin but realized he was not especially good at either. Their second, Julian, a cellist, was born April 14, 1951. The couple’s first child, Andrew, was born on March 22, 1948. Jean Hermione Johnstone was a music student when she met church choir master William Lloyd Webber.

Brown, speaking from Los Angeles, said: ″She left instructions that neither of her sons cancel any of their commitments as a result of her death.″Īndrew Lloyd Webber was in Los Angeles for the opening of his musical ″Sunset Boulevard.″ Peter Brown, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s spokesman, announced that she died Tuesday in London. LONDON (AP) _ Jean Lloyd Webber, the mother of musical composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, has died of cancer. The childrens cast included Jessica Cornish (now known as Jessie J ), Anne-Marie, Hannah Tointon, James Buckley, Hannah Cooper, Matthew Thomas, Jade Ewen, Jay Asforis, Sam Gillam and Cassie Compton.
