Marguerite Dockrell
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Later life
editAfter competing in the Olympic Games, Marguerite Dorothy Dockrell spent a year living in Montpellier in France studying languages in college. On returning to Ireland, she started her studies at Trinity College Dublin where she completed a degree in Dental Science. Upon graduating, she then moved to London where she attended Eastman Clinic to study child dentistry. Following this course, she got a job as a child dentist officer in Oxfordshire. She then travelled around the county of Banbury towing a caravan from a Vauxhall 14, which was fully fitted as a mobile surgery in which she treated children´s dental needs.[1]
She then married her husband John Eugene Joseph Mason in March 1940 at the age of 28, while Mason was aged 46.[2]
They had three children together; Penelope E Mason, born in 1941, [3], Jane Mason born in 1943 and Genevieve Mason born in 1950 [4].
Dockrell lived as a widow for 17 years after her husband Mason died aged 72, in 1966.[5]
Death
editDockrell died at the age of 71 in September in the year 1983. She died in Weymouth, Dorset, England. [6]Dockrell and her husband are both buried in Dorset, England.[7]
Legacy
editDockrell was a member of the Dublin Swimming Club and competed in many races with them. She will be remembered for her accomplishments in swimming, as she was the first women, at the age of sixteen, to take part in an Irish swimming team in the Olympics Games in 1928. [8][9]
References
edit- ^ Barron, Fergus (1993). Swimming for a century. Ireland: Irish Amateur Swimming Association. pp. 26–29.
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- ^ "England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index¨ (1916-2007). vol 23, p.0886". The National Archives. 19 November 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Trinity Olympians Profiles - Trinity Sport - Trinity College Dublin". www.tcd.ie. Retrieved 2019-11-19.
- ^ Byrne, Peter (July 22, 1996). "Irish Women at the Forefront". The Irish Times. Retrieved 21 November 2019.