Florence Ethel Birchenough (13 January 1894 – 3 July 1973) was a British track and field athlete, recognised as the first British woman to find international success in throwing events.
Born at Acton Green, then in Middlesex, she attended Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, then located on Creffield Road, Acton from 1905 until 1911, before joining the Regent Street Polytechnic, where she studied gymnastics and completed the British Association for Physical Training diploma, to qualify as a teacher of the sport.
She began practising the discus, javelin and shot put, and as one of the first British women to do so, photographs of her demonstrating the events were used in Sophie Eliott-Lynn's 1925 book, Athletics for Women and Girls.
[6] Also in 1924, Birchenough participated in the 1924 Women's Olympiad taking the bronze medal in the discus throw.
[7] Birchenough married Henry Jack Millichap in 1932 and remained involved in athletics as an official of the WAAA.