About Marjorie Barrett
Lived 1889 – 1968 (aged 78–79). Marjorie Barrett was a British badminton player.
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. After becoming a member of the Crystal Palace Club she married Frederick Barrett in 1915. The left hander became a force after the war and secured five All England singles titles.
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.
Medal Record at the All England Badminton Championships
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badminton player
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Marjorie Barrett was born in 1889 in Camberwell.
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Marjorie Barrett died in 1968.
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Marjorie Barrett was a badminton player.
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