Rosa Judge is a Maltese

Malta

Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

 music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

ian. She was educated at St Catherine's School in Sliema, Malta.

Career

In 1934 she was awarded the Gold Medal from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music for the highest distinction marks in the final grade. She was awarded an exhibition to the Royal Academy of Music

Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

, London. She is an Associate of Royal Academy of Music

Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

 and an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Music

Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire founded by Royal Charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, England.-Background:The first director was Sir George Grove and he was followed by Sir Hubert Parry...

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Awards/Honours

In 1982 she was created "Cavaliere del Umanita" from the International Society of Cavalleria Cristiana and in 1993 she was invested a Marchesa of the Holy Roman Empire

Holy Roman Empire

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. In 1996 the Republic of France named her a Chevalier

Knight

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 dans L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is an Order of France, established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture, and confirmed as part of the Ordre national du Mérite by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963...

. In 1996 she was named as a Dame of the Military Hospitaller of Jerusalem

Personal life

Rosa Judge was born in Sliema, Malta, the eldest daughter of Anthony Micallef and Olga (née Bartolo), in 1919.

In 1938 she married Raymond Judge. They had two children:

a) Igor Judge, Baron Judge (b. 1941), Privy Counsellor; Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

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b) Lady Tanya Lowson (born in 1945)