Jonah Barrington
MBE (born 29 April 1941)
is a retired Irish/English
squash player, originally from
Morwenstow, Cornwall, England.
A
Cornish-born Irish squash player, Barrington won the
British Open (which was considered to be the effective world championship event before the
World Squash Championships began) six times between 1967 and 1973, and was known as "Mr. Squash".
Barrington attended
Headfort School (
County Meath
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,
Ireland
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),
Cheltenham College
Cheltenham College is a public school ( fee-charging boarding and day school for pupils aged 13–18) in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. The school opened in 1841 as a Church of England foundation and is known for its outstanding linguis ...
, and spent two years at
Trinity College Dublin
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.
The six-time British champion came from an old Anglo-Irish family. Jonah now coaches Egyptian world no.1 and 2015 British Open champion
Mohamed El Shorbagy. One of his ancestors, Sir
Jonah Barrington, established an estate in
County Limerick
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called "Glenstal", which was eventually sold in the 1930s to a group of
Belgian Benedictine monks who established
a boarding school.
In 1982 Barrington co-authored the book ''Murder in the Squash Court: the Only Way to Win''.
He has coached Israeli squash player
Daniel Poleshchuk.
Barrington is the father of professional squash player and commentator
Joey Barrington
Joey Barrington (born 18 January 1979) is a former professional squash player from England. He reached a career high ranking of 24 in the world during January 2007. He is the son of the squash player Jonah Barrington.
Biography
Barrington ...
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British Open titles
Books
*1982, ''Murder in the Squash Court: The Only Way to Win'' (with Angela Patmore), London: S. Paul;
References
External links
*
Sunday Times article 4 April 2010*
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1941 births
Living people
British squash players
Irish male squash players
People from Morwenstow
People educated at Cheltenham College
Sportspeople from Cornwall
20th-century Irish sportsmen
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