Marjory Gosset

Marjory Gosset (27 May 1879 – 12 December 1965) was a noted hockey player in the early years of the 20th century.

She grew up at Bedford School where her father was headmaster, but was educated at home, to a large extent by her mother.

At that time the standard hockey stick had a rounded face rather than a flat one and the ball had a covering of tightly wound string.

[1] There was then a gap in her career while she married the industrial statistician William Sealy Gosset and moved to Dublin where her husband and also her brother Geoffrey were employed at Guinness brewery.

She was in fact unusual, if not unique, in having captained the national teams of both England and Ireland at different times in her career.

As a hockey player in 1897