Jacqueline took up the clarinet aged nine and was fortunate enough to benefit from Liverpool's music studentship scheme.
She subsequently studied Classics at Liverpool University and King's College London, spending most of her working life at St Anselm's College Birkenhead where she taught Latin for 25 years.
She is active in the amateur orchestra scene, playing regularly with the Crosby Symphony and Wirral Symphony orchestras in addition to the Cathedral Orchestra.