Moira Christine Milton (née Paterson) (18 December 1923 – 24 January 2012) was a Scottish amateur golfer. She won the

British Ladies Amateur The Women's Amateur Championship, previously known as the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship, was founded in 1893 by the Ladies' Golf Union. It is organised by The R&A, which merged with the Ladies' Golf Union in 2017. Until the dawn of t ...

in 1952, and was a member of the winning Great Britain and Ireland

1952 Curtis Cup The 7th Curtis Cup Match was played on 6 and 7 June 1952 at Muirfield in Scotland. The British Isles won by 5 matches to 4, to win the Curtis Cup for the first time. The British Isles won two of the three foursomes matches and tied the singles to ...

team.

Early life

Paterson was born in

Castle Douglas Castle Douglas () is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It lies in the lieutenancy area of Kirkcudbrightshire, in the eastern part of Galloway, between the towns of Dalbeattie and Gatehouse of Fleet. It is in the ecclesiastical paris ...

, in

Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway (; ) is one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland, located in the western part of the Southern Uplands. It is bordered by East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and South Lanarkshire to the north; Scottish Borders to the no ...

; she was raised in

Lenzie Lenzie () is a small affluent town by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway in the East Dunbartonshire council area and the historic county of Dunbartonshire in Scotland. It is about north-east of Glasgow city centre and south of Kirkintilloch. At ...

Golf career

Paterson was a gym teacher at

Kirkintilloch Kirkintilloch (; ; ) is a town and a Burgh of Barony (The Baron of Kirkintilloch) in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It lies on the Forth and Clyde Canal and on the south side of Strathkelvin, about northeast of central Glasgow. Historically ...

when she finished as runner-up in the French Women's Open Amateur Championship in 1949, and in the

Scottish Women's Amateur Championship The Scottish Women’s Amateur Championship is the women's national amateur match play golf championship of Scotland. It was first played in 1903 and is currently organised by Scottish Golf. The Scottish Women's Amateur Championship is contested ...

in 1951. She toured South Africa with a group of British women golfers in 1951. Paterson won the

in 1952, and was a member of the victorious Great Britain and Ireland

Curtis Cup The Curtis Cup is the best known team trophy for women amateur golfers, awarded in the biennial Curtis Cup Match. It is co-organised by the United States Golf Association and The R&A and is contested by teams representing the United States and " ...

team later in the same year. She became an honorary member of Gullane Golf Club in 1952. She won three county women's golf championships: Dunbartonshire in 1949, East of Scotland in 1960, and Midlothian in 1962.

Personal life

In 1953, Paterson married cricketer John C. Milton. She died at a nursing home in Wells in 2012, aged 88 years.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Milton, Moira Scottish female golfers Golfers from Dumfries and Galloway Golfers from East Dunbartonshire Amateur golfers Winners of ladies' major amateur golf championships Sportspeople from Lenzie 1923 births 2012 deaths 20th-century Scottish sportswomen