Marjorie Barrett
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Marjorie Barrett | |
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Personal information | |
Country | England |
Born | 1889[1] Camberwell |
Died | 1968 Newton Abbott | (aged 78–79)
Marjorie BarrettbornLucy Marjory East(1889-1968) was an English badminton player.
Biography
[edit]She started playing badminton in the village of Shaldon in Devon whereMeriel Lucastutored her.[2]After becoming a member of the Crystal Palace Club she married Frederick Barrett in 1915.[3]The left hander became a force after the war and secured five All England singles titles.[4]
Her husband died in 1932 and she remarried in 1949 to another badminton player Percy Macfarlane. She died in 1968, aged 79 in Newton Abbott. Her brother Frederick Arthur Dudley East married Dorothy Lyon, another leading badminton player at the time.[5]
Medal Record at theAll England Badminton Championships
[edit]Medal | Year | Event |
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1926 | Women's singles | |
1927 | Women's singles | |
1929 | Women's singles | |
1930 | Women's singles | |
1931 | Women's singles | |
1928 | Women's doubles | |
1929 | Women's doubles | |
1930 | Women's doubles | |
1932 | Women's doubles |
References
[edit]- ^"Index entry".FreeBMD.ONS.Retrieved2 April2021.
- ^"The Queen".Middlesex County Times.27 January 1912.Retrieved3 April2021– viaBritish Newspaper Archive.
- ^"Mrs Barrett".Badminton England.[permanent dead link]
- ^Davis, Pat (1983).Guinness Book of Badminton.Guinness Superlatives Ltd.ISBN0-85112-271-X.
- ^"The Queen".Middlesex County Times.27 January 1912.Retrieved3 April2021– viaBritish Newspaper Archive.
- ^"Times Archives".Oxfordshire Libraries.