Bridget Newell

Ursula Bridget Constance Newell (1911 – 4 June 1937) was a British barrister, magistrate and amateur golfer. She was runner-up in the 1936 British Ladies Amateur, and one of the favourites for 1937. However, she died suddenly, aged 25, shortly before the 1937 tournament at Turnberry began.[1][2]

Life

Newell was born in Eldwick.[1][3] Her father, Harold Newell of Darley Hall in Darley Dale, was a County Court judge for the Derbyshire circuit.[4] She was called to the Bar from the Middle Temple in November 1932,[5] aged 21.[6][7] At the age of 23 she became the youngest magistrate in England, sitting on the Matlock bench.[1][2]

Newell often played in pairing with Gwen Cradock-Hartopp.[1] The couple won the Bystander Ladies' Autumn Foursomes in 1934,[8] and reached the final of the Bystander Scottish Ladies' Foursomes in June 1935.[9] Newell won the Derbyshire ladies golf championship in 1935, and was Midland champion in 1936. She reached the semi-final of the French women's championship in 1936.[1] She was in the British team against the United States in the 1936 Curtis Cup, though did not play.[10] She played for Britain against France in 1936 and 1937.[1] She was runner-up against Pam Barton in the 1936 British Ladies Amateur.[11] In October 1936 she was beaten by Wanda Morgan in the English Ladies Golf Championship at Hayling Island.[12]

In June 1937, Newell was due to play in the four-way international at Turnberry, and in the British Ladies Amateur there the following week. However, she had been suffering from tonsilitis. She practiced on the morning of 3 June, but after lunch withdrew from the England international team and retired to her hotel bedroom. The international tournament started the next day, and Newell died that evening. She was said to have died of diphtheria.[2]

In November 1937, the Duke of Devonshire unveiled tablets to Newell's memory in St Helen's Church, Darley Dale.[4]

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References
  1. 'Woman Golfer's Death: Miss Bridget Newell', The Manchester Guardian, 5 June 1937.
  2. Andrew Ward (2014). "Sudden Death at the International". Golf's Strangest Rounds: Extraordinary But True Tales from a Century of Golf. Pavilion Books. pp. 70–1. ISBN 978-1-910232-23-1.
  3. Donald Steel; Peter Ryde (1975). "Newell, Ursula Bridget Constance". The Encyclopedia of golf. Viking Press. p. 271.
  4. 'Death of Judge Newell', The Times, 6 November 1937.
  5. Honourable Society of the Middle Temple (1949). Register of admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, from the fifteenth century to the year 1944. Published for the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple by Butterworth.
  6. "Miss U. B. C. Newell". The Solicitors' Journal. 1937. p. 472.
  7. The Law Journal. E.B. Ince. 1937. p. 417.
  8. 'Ladies' Meeting at Ranelagh', The Times, 10 October 1935, p. 6
  9. 'Scottish Ladies' Foursomes', The Times, 7 June 1935, p. 7
  10. 'The Curtis Cup', The Times, 6 May 1936, p.5
  11. 'Golf: Miss Barton the Champion. Third Time Lucky', The Times, 22 May 1936, p. 7.
  12. 'English Ladies' Championship: Two Close Matches', The Times, 2 October 1936, p. 5.
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