Phoebe Blair-White

She was ranked alongside Norma Stoker and Hilda Wallis as the best female tennis players in Ireland.

In 1924 she won the Ulster Grass Court Championships for the second year and again in 1925 Boat Club tournament in Belfast.

In 1928 she won the all-comers ladies’ singles title at the Fitzwilliam Club Championships, Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club in Dublin against Hilda Wallis and the all-comers ladies’ doubles event with Rosie Fleming.

Blair-White continued her interest in tennis for the rest of her life, even playing the game in her seventies and eighties with her grandchildren.

She died in Strabane Northern Ireland on 6 March 1991, and is buried in Lifford, County Donegal beside her husband.