Margaret Weedon
Margaret Kate Weedon (née Macrae, and formerly ''Mercer'', 31 October 1853 – 19 October 1930) was a British archer who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. She was born in Lewes Lewes () is the county town of East Sussex, England. It is the police and judicial centre for all of Sussex and is home to Sussex Police, East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service, Lewes Crown Court and HMP Lewes. The civil parish is the centre of .... Weedon competed at the 1908 Games in the only archery event open to women, the double National round competition. She took 14th place in the event with 498 points. References External links Margaret Weedon's profile at Sports Reference.com* * 1853 births 1930 deaths British female archers Olympic archers for Great Britain Archers at the 1908 Summer Olympics People from Lewes 20th-century British women {{UK-archery-bio-stub ...
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United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in the British Isles that existed between 1801 and 1922, when it included all of Ireland. It was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into a unified state. The establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 led to the remainder later being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1927. The United Kingdom, having financed the European coalition that defeated France during the Napoleonic Wars, developed a large Royal Navy that enabled the British Empire to become the foremost world power for the next century. For nearly a century from the final defeat of Napoleon following the Battle of Waterloo to the outbreak of World War I, Britain was almost continuously at peace with Great Powers. The most notable exception was the Crimean War with the Russian Empire, in which actual hostilities were relatively limited. How ...
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