Elsie Fogerty

Elsie Fogerty
Personal details
Born	16 December 1865 Sydenham, London, England
Died	4 July 1945 Leamington Spa, England
Nationality	English
Alma mater	Paris Conservatoire
Profession	Teacher, Dramatist, Principal and Founder Central School of Speech and Drama

Elsie Fogerty, CBE, LRAM, (16 December 1865, London – 4 July 1945, Leamington, Warwickshire) was an English teacher of voice, diction and drama, who 'taught the stage to speak'. She was founder and principal of the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

The daughter of engineer and architect Joseph Fogerty FRIBA (d. 1899) of Dublin, and his wife, Hannah Cochrane (d. 1910), of Limerick, Fogerty was born in Sydenham, south London on 16 December 1865. An only child she was privately educated and in 1883 trained at the Paris Conservatoire under Coquelin aine and Louis-Arsène Delaunay, and with Hermann Vezin in London. Fogerty went on to teach at the Crystal Palace School of Art and Literature from 1889, Roedean School from 1908-1937, and Sir Frank Benson's London School of Acting.

Fogerty began teaching Saturday speech classes at the Royal Albert Hall in the 1890s. Following their success, in 1906 she founded the Central School of Speech and Drama then known as the Central School of Speech-Training and Dramatic Arts at the Hall. In 1923 the school was one of three educational establishments approved by the University of London to grant diplomas in dramatic art. Fogerty gave university extension lectures at the Albert Hall, and for many years took evening classes for London County Council teachers.

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