Lily Gower

Lily Gower, birth name Lilias Mary Gower (5 October 1877 — 29 July 1959 She was one of the three women who have won the Open Championship, winning in 1905 and was only one of three women to have won the premier selection event the Champion Cup, now President's Cup, in 1904.

During her peak she was also three times Open Gold Medalist (contestants being both men and women) and even Men's Gold Medalist. The latter case was a result of confusion in rules: after "Open" and "Women's" were renamed into "Men's" and "Women's", the inadequately modified rules contained a loophole which allowed women to enter the "Men's Gold" contest.

In 1906 she married Reginald Beaton, who was also a leading croquet player.

As an administrator she served on the Council of the Croquet Association between 1939 and 1954.