Betty Archdale
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| Full name | Helen Elizabeth Archdale | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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21 August 1907 Paddington, London, England |
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| Died | 11 January 2000 (aged 92) Killara, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Nickname | Betty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 1) | 28 December 1934 v Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 13 July 1937 v Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1937 | Kent Women | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1937 | East of England Women | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 18 September 2008
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Helen Elizabeth "Betty" Archdale (21 August 1907 – 11 January 2000) was an educationalist and cricketer. She was a captain of the English women's cricket team in 1934 and 1935. In 1934/35 she led the first English cricket team to tour Australia and New Zealand, the result of which was a 2-0 victory over Australia. This tour did much both to raise the status of women's cricket and to heal some of the damage done to Anglo-Australian cricket relations by bodyline two years earlier.
Archdale was born in London, the daughter of Helen Archdale (née Russel), a suffragette who was at one time jailed for smashing windows at Whitehall, and was later renowned as a leading British feminist; and an Irish professional soldier in the British Army, who died in World War I when she was eleven. Her godmother was Emmeline Pankhurst. Archdale attended Bedales School in Hampshire where she learned to play cricket and, thence, to St Leonards School in St Andrews, Fife.
After school Archdale attended McGill University in Montreal, graduating in 1929 with a BA in Economics and Political Science. She studied Law in London. Specialising in international law, she conducted part of her studies in the Soviet Union. In 1938 she was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn.
During World War II, she served in the WRNS as a wireless operator in Singapore. She was awarded an Order of the British Empire for helping nurses escape from the conflict.
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