Thea Hindmarch
{{short description|Player of English billiards, three times champion (1918–2001)}}
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{{Use British English|date=November 2018}}
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| name = Dorothea Hindmarch
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1918|6|4}}
| birth_place = Birmingham, England{{cite web |title=Birth registration |url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=139697255:8042&d=bmd_1653949805 |website=FreeBMD |access-date=5 November 2022}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2001|9|20|1918|6|4}}
| death_place = Bromley, London, England
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Dorothea Hindmarch (4 June 1918 – 20 September 2001), also known as Thea March, was an English champion player of billiards, and snooker player. She won the equivalent of the women's world billiards title three times, in 1962, 1967 and 1969.{{cite web |url=http://world-billiards.com/?p=9757 |title=World Ladies Billiards Champions |website=world-billiards.com |publisher=World Billiards Ltd |date=22 June 2015 |access-date=15 November 2019 |archive-date=16 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190816182227/http://world-billiards.com/?p=9757 |url-status=dead }}
Biography
Hindmarch was born on 4 June 1918.{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=ZA3u4H9JgnvJ9HQ3GBES2A&scan=1|title=Index entry|access-date=14 December 2019|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}{{efn|Her age was stated as 53 at the time of the November 1971 profile in Billiards and Snooker magazine}} During World War II, Hindmarch was a corporal in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, leading a small team involved in radar location in South Wales.
Hindmarch won the London and Home Counties division of the Ladies' snooker championship in 1959, and for six years consecutively from 1965 to 1970. She also won the Southern Counties championship for four consecutive years from 1966. In English Billiards, Hindmarch was five times London and Home Counties champion, including from 1967 to 1969.
Hindmarch won the Women's Billiards Championship in 1962, winning a three-hour final against Rae Craven 438–385.{{cite news |author= |title=Billiards |work=Birmingham Daily Post |page=12 |date=24 March 1962|via=British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 5 October 2019.}} She won a second title five years later, in 1967,{{cite book |author= |title=Handbook and rules |publisher=Billiards and Snooker Control Council |page=107 |date=1978 }} and a third in 1969, beating Vera Selby 452–409 in the final.{{cite news |last=Davison |first=John |title=North woman cueist in splendid form |work=Newcastle Evening Chronicle |page=14 |date=22 April 1969|via=British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 5 October 2019.}}
In the 1971–1972 season, Rae Craven and Hindmarch became the first women to enter the English Amateur Snooker championship. Hindmarch served as the Secretary of the Women's Billiards Association, and in that capacity was a member of the Billiards and Snooker Control Council.
Hindmarch worked as an Inspector of Taxes.{{cite magazine |author= |title=Profile of Thea Hindmarch |magazine=Billiards and Snooker |page=3 |publisher=Billiards Association and Control Council |issue=November 1971 }} She died in Bromley on 20 September 2001, at the age of 83.{{cite web |title=Dorothea Hindmarch |url=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7579&h=1535118&tid=&pid=&queryId=206e841a933f8efe3a8196d10e58eb03&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Dqh4695&_phstart=successSource&_gl=1*1ryjbrg*_ga*MTE5NjUxMzc1LjE2Mjg3OTI3Mjc.*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*MTY3NTU2OTAzNy4yNjQuMS4xNjc1NTczNDA4LjAuMC4w*_ga_B2YGR3SSMB*NTc0Y2VlMGItNzIzYS00ODQyLWFkNWUtMjUwMGQ4MzdjYTFkLjIzNy4xLjE2NzU1NzM0MDguMC4wLjA. |publisher=England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007 |access-date=5 February 2023}}{{cite web |title=Dorothea Hindmarch |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/search-results |website=Probate Search |access-date=5 February 2023}}
Career highlights
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External links
- [http://world-billiards.com/?p=9757 World Ladies Billiards Champions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190816182227/http://world-billiards.com/?p=9757 |date=16 August 2019 }} World Billiards
{{Women's world champions of English billiards}}
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Category:English snooker players
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Category:English players of English billiards
Category:Female players of English billiards