Kay Cavendish

Kathleen Dorothy Cavendish Murray (1 October 1908 – 23 January 2000), who was billed as Kay Cavendish, was a British classically trained pianist and popular entertainer.

Life
Cavendish was born in Hong Kong to John Alexander Shakespear Murray and his wife, Constance Ellen Louisa Clarke. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was awarded a gold medal. She became a member of The Cavendish Three, a close harmony trio. and made over 400 episodes of her weekly BBC radio programme, 'Kay on the Keys'.

She appeared on It's That Man Again, during World War II, entertained troops for ENSA., and, in 1949, appeared in the film Poet's Pub.

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 5 February 1962.

She died in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, aged 89.