Dorothy Ursula Cundall (1882 – 8 February 1954) was an English

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player. Born in 1882 in

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she was a prominent player before the

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winning three All England titles. In 1912 she married Douglas Harvey (who died in 1917). Cundall played as Mrs Harvey afterwards. In 1922 she remarried to Bert Bisgood, a prominent Somerset cricketer who also represented Ireland at badminton. She died in Bournemouth on 8 February 1954. She had two children,

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, a

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MP, and Jeanne Bisgood, an English international golfer.

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1882 births 1954 deaths English female badminton players {{England-badminton-bio-stub