Dorothy Shepherd-Barron (

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Cunliffe; 24 November 1897 – 20 February 1953) was a

tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

player from Great Britain who competed in the

1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad () and officially branded as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The opening ceremony was held on 5 July, but some competitions had al ...

Tennis career

At the

she teamed with

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to win a bronze medal in the women's doubles event. In the singles event, she reached the quarterfinals, losing to Julie Vlasto. Between 1920 and 1939, she participated in 15 editions of the Wimbledon Championships. In the singles event, her best result was reaching the quarterfinals in 1921 (losing to Mabel Clayton) and 1924 (losing to

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. She reached the final of the Wimbledon doubles event in

1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

with Phyllis Howkins Covell, losing in straight sets to compatriots Peggy Saunders Michell and Phoebe Holcroft Watson, a result that was repeated in the final of the U.S. National Championships. Two years later, in 1931, she and partner

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won the doubles title, defeating Doris Metaxa Howard and

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in three sets. In mixed doubles, she was a Grand Slam finalist on four occasions, partnering Lewis Deane, Leslie Godfree and Bunny Austin.

Personal life

On 23 September 1921, she married engineer Wilfred Shepherd-Barron in Bombay, India. One of their sons is

John Shepherd-Barron John Adrian Shepherd-Barron OBE (23 June 1925 – 15 May 2010) was an India-born British inventor, who led the team that installed the first cash machine, sometimes referred to as the automated teller machine or ATM. Early life John Adrian Shep ...

, credited as the inventor of the ATM, and their youngest son, Richard Shepherd-Barron, was a racing driver in the 1950s and 1960s, finishing 13th overall at the 1962 Le Mans race. She died in a car accident in

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on 20 February 1953.

Grand Slam finals

Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runner-ups)

Mixed doubles: 4 (4 runner-ups)

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