Archdale, Helen Elizabeth [Betty] (1907–2000), feminist, cricketer, and educationist, was born at 59 Oxford Terrace, Bayswater, London, on 21 August 1907, the only daughter of the Scottish feminist and journalist Helen Alexander Archdale, née Russel (1876–1949), and her husband, ...
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Archdale, Helen Elizabeth [Betty] (1907–2000), feminist, cricketer, and educationist
Frances Burton
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Brittin, Janette Ann [Jan] (1959–2017), cricketer
Rob Steen
Brittin, Janette Ann [Jan] (1959–2017), cricketer, was born on 4 July 1959 at 26 Wolverton Avenue, Kingston upon Thames, the only child of Kevin Brittin (b. 1939), a toolmaker and aircraft manufacturing clerk, and his wife, Margaret Ann Josephine (Maggie), ...
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Duggan, Mary Beatrice (1925–1973), cricketer
Carol Salmon
Duggan, Mary Beatrice (1925–1973), cricketer, was born on 7 November 1925 at 106 High Street, Worcester, the youngest of three children of Norman Duggan, physician and surgeon, and his wife, Mary Heath Gattey. She attended Alice Ottley School, Worcester, and Royal School, Bath...
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Flint (née Heyhoe), Rachael, Baroness Heyhoe Flint (known as Rachael Heyhoe Flint) (1939-2017)
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Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint (1939-2017), by unknown photographer, 1966
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Flint [née Heyhoe], Rachael, Baroness Heyhoe Flint [known as Rachael Heyhoe Flint] (1939–2017), cricketer and hockey player
Rafaelle Nicholson
Flint [née Heyhoe], Rachael, Baroness Heyhoe Flint [known as Rachael Heyhoe Flint] (1939–2017), cricketer and hockey player, was born Rachael Heyhoe at 85 Claregate, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, on 11 June 1939, the daughter of Geoffrey Heyhoe (1899–1972), born in ...
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Hide, Mary Edith [Molly] (1913–1995), cricketer and farmer
Carol Salmon
Hide, Mary Edith [Molly] (1913–1995), cricketer and farmer, was born in Shanghai, China, on 24 October 1913, the elder of two children of Arthur Hide and his wife, Edith, née Jansen. Her father ran a business in China and she was four years old when the family returned to ...
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Hughes, Margaret Patricia (1919–2005), writer on cricket
Tony Mason
Hughes, Margaret Patricia (1919–2005), writer on cricket, was born on 1 October 1919 at 5 Beach Houses, Margate, Kent, the daughter of Arthur Hubert Hughes (d. 1944), pianoforte ironmonger, and his wife, Dorothy Maud, née Townsend. She had three brothers and it was from them that she was infected by the cricket virus during games played in the back garden of their house. She does not appear to have sought to play more seriously as an adult, perhaps slightly surprisingly since the 1930s saw a growth in interest in playing the game among young middle-class women. After leaving school at seventeen she took a job in the advertising department of the ...
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Maclagan, Myrtle Ethel (1911–1993), cricketer and soldier
Carol Salmon
Maclagan, Myrtle Ethel (1911–1993), cricketer and soldier, was born on 2 April 1911 in Ambala, India, the elder daughter and second of four children of Robert Smeiton Maclagan (1860–1931), army officer, and his wife, Beatrice Ethel, née Duperier. She moved to Britain in 1919 and lived at ...
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Rheinberg, Netta (1911–2006), cricketer and cricket administrator
Mark Pottle
Rheinberg, Netta (1911–2006), cricketer and cricket administrator, was born on 24 October 1911 at 23 the Avenue, Brondesbury, Middlesex, the daughter of Jewish parents, Julius Rheinberg, export merchant, and his wife, Frieda, née Loewy. She was educated at South Hampstead High School for Girls...
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Rheinberg, Netta (1911–2006)
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Netta Rheinberg (1911–2006) by S. & G. Barratts, 1948 PA Photos
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Snowball, Elizabeth Alexandra [Betty] (1908–1988)
Maker: David Savill
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Snowball, Elizabeth Alexandra [Betty] (1908–1988), cricketer
Carol Salmon
Snowball, Elizabeth Alexandra [Betty] (1908–1988), cricketer, was born at 83 Bank Parade, Burnley, Lancashire, on 9 July 1908, the only child of Thomas Snowball, medical practitioner, and his wife, Elsie Alexandra Scott. Her parents were Scottish and Betty, as she became known, was sent to ...
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Willes [married name Hodges], Christiana (bap. 1786, d. 1873), pioneer of round-arm bowling in cricket
Glenys Williams
Willes [married name Hodges], Christiana (bap. 1786, d. 1873), pioneer of round-arm bowling in cricket, was baptized at Headcorn, Kent, on 20 February 1786, the daughter of William Willes (1743/4-1811), landowner, and his wife, Sarah née Snelling (1750/1-1829). In 1794 her father inherited the manor of ...
