Margaret Barrand (née Margaret Semple) (born 1940) is a former English

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international player and a former national champion.

Biography

Barrand became an English National doubles champion after winning the

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mixed doubles title with Roger Mills in 1965. The following year she won the women's doubles with

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in three successive years (1963, 1964, and 1965), each time with a different partner ( in order:

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, and Bob McCoig). She also won the 1965 Canadian Open mixed doubles with McCoig and the 1965 U.S Open women's doubles with Jennifer Pritchard Horton. She represented Lancashire and England and played under the name of Semple until she married a vicar called George Barrand in 1958, playing thereafter as Barrand.

Achievements

International tournaments

''Mixed doubles''

References

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