A Founder member of the Elgar Society has died, aged 94.

Winifred Lambert and her husband Stanley were among the first members of the society when it was set up in 1951.

Its aims were to promote the study, performance and appreciation of the works of Sir Edward Elgar.

Mrs Lambert was born in Gateshead on February 26, 1911, and some time later her family moved to London. This was where she met her husband, an organist and organ-builder, then with the firm of Hill Norman & Beard.

For a time Mr Lambert was the organist at the opera house at Glyndebourne, where he had installed the instrument.

The family moved to Worcestershire in the 1930s, when Mr Lambert was appointed managing director at Nicholson's Organs, then based in St John's.

In the 1950s, he bought the firm and moved it to Malvern, where it remained at Lower Quest Hills Road until recent years. Mrs Lambert joined him on the board of the company.

Mr and Mrs Lambert were appointed joint secretaries of the Elgar Society in 1959, a post they held until 1970.

In his book The Elgar Society, Michael Trott wrote: "Their unfailing courtesy and warmth are remembered by all who belonged to the society at this time."

Her son, Philip Lambert, recalled that, apart from music, his mother's interests included pottery, silversmithing and bookbinding, which she used to pursue at Malvern College of Art.

Mrs Lambert died on Christmas Day at the Mowbray Nursing Home in Malvern. A funeral service is being held at St Joseph's RC Church, Newtown Road, on Tuesday, January 17, at 11am.