Dorothy Shepherd-Barron

At the 1924 Summer Olympics she teamed up with Evelyn Colyer to win a bronze medal in the women's doubles event. In the singles event she reached the quarterfinal; she was beaten by Julie Vlasto.

Between 1920 and 1939 she participated in 15 editions of the Wimbledon Championships. In the singles event her best result was reaching the quarterfinal in 1921 (lost to Mabel Clayton) and 1924 (lost to Phyllis Satterthwaite.[1] She reached the final of the Wimbledon doubles event in 1929 with Phyllis Howkins Covell but lost in straight sets to compatriots Peggy Saunders Michell and Phoebe Holcroft Watson, a result that would be repeated a few months later in the final of the U.S. National Championships. Two years later, 1931, she partnered Phyllis Mudford King to win the doubles title, defeating Doris Metaxa Howard and Josane Sigart in three sets.[2]

In the mixed-doubles event she was a Grand Slam finalist on four occasions, partnering Lewis Deane, Leslie Godfree and Bunny Austin.

On 23 September 1921, she married engineer Wilfred Shepherd-Barron in Bombay, India. One of their sons is John Shepherd-Barron, credited as the inventor of the atm while their youngest son, Richard Shepherd-Barron, was in the 1950s and 1960s a racing driver, finishing 13th overall at the 1962 Le Mans race. She died in a car accident in Cambridgeshire on 20 February 1953.

• Dorothy Shepherd-Barron at the International Tennis Federation
• Dorothy Shepherd-Barron at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Dorothy Shepherd-Barron at the International Olympic Committee
• databaseOlympics profile