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Peggy Dawson-Scott

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Peggy Dawson-Scott
Full namePeggy Leila Dawson-Scott
Country (sports) Great Britain
Born1920
Brentford, Oxfordshire
Died1993 (aged 72)
Bodmin, Cornwall
Singles
Grand Slam singles results
WimbledonQF (1949)
Doubles
Grand Slam doubles results
WimbledonQF (1951)
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Wimbledon4R (1951, 1952)

Peggy Dawson-Scott (1920 – 1993), born Peggy Maccorkindale,[1] was a British amateur tennis player.

Born in Oxfordshire, Dawson-Scott was active in the 1940s and 1950s. She reached the singles quarter-finals of the 1949 Wimbledon Championships, beating sixth seed Jean Quertier en route.[2]

Dawson-Scott's first marriage was to Scottish rugby union international William Penman in 1940. He was killed in World War II while serving with the Royal Air Force and she remarried in 1945 to Edward Dawson Scott.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Peggy Leila Maccorkindale". www.ancestry.com.au.
  2. ^ "Wimbledon Tennis". Kalgoorlie Miner. Western Australia. 23 June 1949. p. 5. Retrieved 7 January 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ McCrery, Nigel; Rowe, Michael (28 February 2018). Final Scrum: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Second World War. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1473894525.