Anne Elizabeth "Elsie" Fogerty CBE (16 December 1865 – 4 July 1945) was a British teacher who departed from the customary practice of "voice and diction" also called elocution.
[1] An only child, Fogerty was privately educated and in 1883 trained at the Paris Conservatoire under Coquelin aine and Louis-Arsène Delaunay, and with Hermann Vezin in London.
Many of Fogerty's pupils had successes in the Poetry Reading Competition at Oxford before the Second World War and many alumni went on to become teachers in speech and the management of theatres.
Whilst at the Royal Albert Hall Elsie Fogerty trained notable actors including: Many public figures and actors consulted Fogerty on special difficulties connected with the speech side of their work including poet Laurence Binyon, Elisabeth Bergner, Sarah Bernhardt, George Bernard Shaw, T S Eliot, various pillars of Church and State, and Princess Louise, who became Patron of the School.
[1] Fogerty was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1934 Birthday Honours for services to speech training and dramatic arts.