Gladys Ravenscroft (3 May 1888 – 6 February 1960) was a British amateur

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er. She was born in

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in 1888. Ravenscroft won the 1912

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at Turnberry in

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. In 1913 she traveled to

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to win the

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. She defeated

Muriel Dodd Muriel Dodd (31 May 1891 – 21 December 1976) was an English amateur golfer. She held the British and Canadian titles in 1913. Dodd was the winner of the 1913 British Ladies Amateur held at the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, taking the tit ...

, then played against

Marion Hollins Marion B. Hollins (December 3, 1892 – August 27, 1944) was an American amateur golfer. She is known as an athlete and as a golf course developer, one of the only known female golf course developers in history. She won the 1921 U.S. Women's Ama ...

in the finals. She was the second competitor to simultaneously hold both the American and British titles. Gladys Ravenscroft married Temple Dobell in 1915 and resided in Wirral,

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. During

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she did volunteer service. After the war she resumed competing, and won the Cheshire ladies amateur championship on more than one occasion. She died in 1960. Her great-nephew was the broadcaster and disc jockey

John Peel John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey (DJ) and radio presenter. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly fr ...

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