There were actually several golfers in her family. Her older brother Norman Macbeth (1879-1940) was a golf course architect and is in the Southern California Golf Hall of Fame, no less. And another brother Allan Macbeth (1883-1956) was also a good player and married the famous golfer Muriel Dodd, who won the British Championship in 1913.
Golf is not a sport I claim to know much about, but I can at least take a certain pride that the only Scottish sports international player in my family was my great aunt, Flora Macbeth (1885-1970). She is in this photo, back row second left, with the Scottish Ladies international team that faced England in 1904 at Troon. She was a regular on the women's golf circuit in the early years of the century, although based in the south of England she didn't make too many appearances in Scotland. This was the first of three internationals, the last being in 1912 by which time she was listed as Mrs H Rigby, having married Hugh Mallinson Rigby the previous year. She was competing in the (British) Ladies Championship as late as 1920.
There were actually several golfers in her family. Her older brother Norman Macbeth (1879-1940) was a golf course architect and is in the Southern California Golf Hall of Fame, no less. And another brother Allan Macbeth (1883-1956) was also a good player and married the famous golfer Muriel Dodd, who won the British Championship in 1913.
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Keith Durrant
8/5/2022 11:10:32 pm
I enjoyed reading your family's golfing history. Am I correct in understanding there was another brother Norman Bruce Macbeth and that N.B. Macbeth and Allan Macbeth worked in the family business in India?
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Andy Mitchell
9/5/2022 09:09:31 am
Hi Keith, there was a long-term family connection to India. Macbeth Brothers was set up in Bombay in 1882 by John and Norman Macbeth. John was resident manager until his death, succeeded by his son Bruce, until he retired in 1938. Allan was Norman's son and he represented the business in the UK.
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