Marjorie Barrett born Lucy Marjory East (1889-1968) was an English badminton player.

Marjorie Barrett
Personal information
CountryEngland
Born1889[1]
Camberwell
Died1968(1968-00-00) (aged 78–79)
Newton Abbott

Biography edit

She started playing badminton in the village of Shaldon in Devon where Meriel Lucas tutored 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 the All England Badminton Championships edit

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Medal Year Event
  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

  1. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  2. ^ "The Queen". Middlesex County Times. 27 January 1912. Retrieved 3 April 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "Mrs Barrett". Badminton England.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ Davis, Pat (1983). Guinness Book of Badminton. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-271-X.
  5. ^ "The Queen". Middlesex County Times. 27 January 1912. Retrieved 3 April 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "Times Archives". Oxfordshire Libraries.