Eveline Grace Peterson (17 January 1877 – 1944) was an English female badminton player. She mainly competed in the

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, Scottish Open and

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from the 1910s to the late 1920s. Peterson was born in

Jalpaiguri Jalpaiguri (), is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Jalpaiguri district as well as of the Jalpaiguri division of West Bengal, covering the jurisdiction of the five districts of North Bengal. The city is ...

, British India, to civil servant Frederick William Voysey Peterson and Mary Ann Jefford Hopewell. The family later moved to 12 Ildersly Grove in

Dulwich Dulwich (; ) is an area in south London, England. The settlement is mostly in the London Borough of Southwark, with parts in the London Borough of Lambeth, and consists of Dulwich Village, East Dulwich, West Dulwich, and the Southwark half of H ...

. She achieved her maiden Championship title in her career after claiming the women's doubles title during the 1914 All England Badminton Championships partnering with

Margaret Tragett Margaret Rivers Tragett (née Larminie) was a former English badminton player. She competed in the All England Championships from 1902 until 1933 and was the winner of eleven titles. She gained fifteen caps for England and was also editor of th ...

. Peterson won the mixed doubles titles as a part of the 1926 All England Badminton Championships and 1927 All England Badminton Championships pairing with Irish male badminton player

Frank Devlin Joseph Francis Devlin (19 January 1900 – 27 October 1988) was an Irish badminton player. Badminton career Devlin is the second most successful player ever in the All England Open Badminton Championships with 18 titles between 1925 and ...

. She also won the women's doubles titles in the Scottish Open Championships in 1921 and 1922.

References

All England Champions 1899-2007

Statistics of Badminton England
1877 births People from Jalpaiguri People from Dulwich Sportspeople from the London Borough of Southwark English female badminton players 1944 deaths Date of death missing British people in colonial India {{UK-badminton-bio-stub