Peggy Dawson-Scott Explained

Peggy Dawson-Scott
Fullname:Peggy Leila Dawson-Scott
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Birth Date:1920
Birth Place:Brentford, Oxfordshire
Death Date:1993 (aged 72)
Death Place:Bodmin, Cornwall
Wimbledonresult:QF (1949)
Wimbledondoublesresult:QF (1951)
Wimbledonmixedresult:4R (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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Peggy Leila Maccorkindale . www.ancestry.com.au.
  2. News: Wimbledon Tennis . . Western Australia . 23 June 1949 . 7 January 2022 . 5 . National Library of Australia.
  3. Book: McCrery . Nigel . Nigel McCrery . Rowe . Michael . Final Scrum: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Second World War . 28 February 2018 . Pen and Sword . 978-1473894525.