Margaret Scott (golfer)

Lady Margaret Scott (1897)
by Ellis William Roberts (1860 -1930)

Lady Margaret Rachel Scott (5 April 1874 – 27 January 1938) was a dominant player in early women's golf, who won the first three British Ladies Amateurs in 1893, 1894, and 1895.

Scott was a daughter of John Scott, 3rd Earl of Eldon, and the fourth of seven children. Several of her brothers were also golfers; Michael Scott won The Amateur Championship in 1933 towards the end of a long career, Osmund Scott was the runner-up in the same tournament in 1905, and Denys Scott also played.[1]

In her first two championship wins, Lady Margaret Scott beat Issette Pearson, the founder and first Secretary of the Ladies' Golf Union. She won by 7 & 5 in 1893 and 3 & 2 in 1894, then beat Emma Lythgoe 5 & 4 in 1895. Thereafter, Scott retired from competitive golf.

She married the Hon. Frederick Gustavus Hamilton-Russell in 1897, and died in 1938 at the age of 63.

External links

• Hutchinson, Horace G. (May 1915). "Fifty Years of Golf part 13" (PDF). Golf Illustrated & Outdoor America. pp. 34–35. http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/GolfIllustrated/1915/gi32l.pdf#page=2. 

Persondata
Name	Scott, Margaret
Alternative names	Scott, Margaret Rachel; Scott, Lady Margaret
Short description	Amateur golfer
Date of birth	5 April 1874
Place of birth
Date of death	27 January 1938
Place of death