Lily Beaurepaire

{{short description|Australian swimmer and diver}}

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{{Infobox swimmer

| name = Lily Beaurepaire

| image = Lily Beaurepaire 1920.jpg

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| caption = Lily Beaurepaire at the 1920 Olympics

| fullname = Lilian De Beaurepaire

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| national_team = Australia

| strokes = Freestyle

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|09|15|df=y}}

| birth_place = Albert Park, Colony of Victoria

| death_date = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|1979|11|24|1892|07|15|df=y}}}}

| death_place = Geelong, Victoria, Australia

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Lilian De Beaurepaire (15 September 1892 – 24 November 1979),{{cite web |title=Lilian de Beaurepaire |url=https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/indexsearch.doj?viewSequence=200&language=en&trxId=IDX&commandAction_displayDetailsAction%3DBA8541CB2CD302F25EC13A8665AA8A24 |website=Births Deaths and Marriages Victoria |accessdate=30 January 2019}} also known by her married name Lilian Clarke, was an Australian swimmer and diver. She competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in the 100-metre and 400-mete freestyle and plain high diving, but failed to reach the finals. Her brother Frank Beaurepaire was an Olympic swimmer.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/45007 |title=Lily Beaurepaire |work=Olympedia |access-date=8 August 2021}}

She was the daughter of Francis Edmund de Beaurepaire, sailor, tram-conductor, trader, and (later) hotel proprietor, and his wife Mary Edith, née Inman.{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |last1=Poynter |first1=J.R. |title=Beaurepaire, Sir Francis Joseph (Frank) (1891–1956) |id2=beaurepaire-sir-francis-joseph-frank-5175 |accessdate=30 January 2019}} In 1936, she married Herbert Clarke.{{cite web |title=Lillian de Beaurepaire |url=https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/indexsearch.doj?viewSequence=200&language=en&trxId=IDX&commandAction_displayDetailsAction%3D6106FE1BFB46578D9F86A984767776F0 |website=Victorian Births, Deaths and Marriages |accessdate=30 January 2019}}

The Lillian Beaurepaire Memorial Swimming Pool on the Lorne foreshore was opened by Melbourne City Councillor Ian Beaurepaire CMG in December 1967. For many years she was Lorne's only lifesaver.{{cite web |title=Home » Themes » People » Sport Lillian Beaurepaire |url=http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/sport/display/90294-lillian-beaurepaire |website=Monument Australia website |accessdate=30 January 2019}}

She died on 24 November 1979 at Chesterfield Private Hospital, Geelong.{{cite news |title=Death notices – Lillian Clarke (Beaurepaire) |work=The Age |date=28 November 1979}}