Her father's aunt was the author and literary critic Elizabeth, Lady Eastlake.

[1] Her father, a manufacturing company manager and former insurance clerk, had played football for England in 1876.

She won the All England covered mixed doubles a second time in 1908 with Anthony Wilding.

The same year, she won the Women's indoor singles at the Olympic Games in London.

Two days after winning the Olympic final, she married Wharram Henry Lamplough, a physician and surgeon.