Pauline Stuart obituary
My mother Pauline Stuart, who has died aged 92, was one of the founders of the New College of Speech and Drama in London. Her role in the college's birth began in 1962, when, as a teacher in the drama department of the Royal Academy of Music in London, she was told that her unit was to close. Characteristically, she refused to take the announcement lying down, and with two colleagues decided to set up a new college t…