Marjorie Barrett
{{Short description|English badminton player}}
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| country = England
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| birth_place = Camberwell, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1968|||1889|df=y}}
| death_place = Newton Abbott
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Marjorie Barrett born Lucy Marjory East (1889-1968) was an English badminton player.
Biography
She started playing badminton in the village of Shaldon in Devon where Meriel Lucas tutored her.{{cite news |title=The Queen |work=Middlesex County Times |date=27 January 1912 |accessdate=3 April 2021 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002627/19120127/164/0056| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }} After becoming a member of the Crystal Palace Club she married Frederick Barrett in 1915.{{cite web|url=http://www.badmintonengland.co.uk/text.asp?section=1738#.Vj8chNLhAdU|title=Mrs Barrett|publisher=Badminton England}}{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The left hander became a force after the war and secured five All England singles titles.{{cite book|last=Davis|first=Pat|title=Guinness Book of Badminton|year=1983|publisher=Guinness Superlatives Ltd|isbn=0-85112-271-X}}
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.{{cite news |title=The Queen |work=Middlesex County Times |date=27 January 1912 |accessdate=3 April 2021 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002627/19120127/164/0056| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}
Medal Record at the [[All England Badminton Championships]]
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| {{MedalGold |1926|Women's singles}} |
| {{MedalGold |1927|Women's singles}} |
| {{MedalGold |1929|Women's singles}} |
| {{MedalGold |1930|Women's singles}} |
| {{MedalGold |1931|Women's singles}} |
| {{MedalGold |1928|Women's doubles}} |
| {{MedalGold |1929|Women's doubles}} |
| {{MedalGold |1930|Women's doubles}} |
| {{MedalGold |1932|Women's doubles}} |
References
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{{Footer All England Open Championships Badminton Singles Women}}
{{Footer All England Open Championships Badminton Doubles Women}}
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