Doris Mildred Coysh was an English

English women's cricket team

The England women's cricket team played their first Test match in 1934–35, when they beat Australia 2–0 in a three-Test series. Their current captain is Charlotte Edwards, replacing Clare Connor after her five-year tenure, which she finished by leading England to their first Ashes series win since...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. She played in the first four Test matches, which were played during England's successful tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1934-35,, although her personal performances were disappointing. She also played for East Women, Middlesex Women, South Women and Sussex Women.

Personal Life

Coysh was born Doris Mildred Turner in 1908 in West Ham

West Ham

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, Essex

Essex

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, the daughter of Henry Turner and Mildred Caroline (Carrie) Palmer.
In 1936, Turner married Arthur William Henry Coysh (1896-1992), a divorced man with no children, in Wandsworth

Wandsworth

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. They had no children.
Coysh died in 1986 in Wandsworth

Wandsworth

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, and was followed by her husband, Arthur, in Bath, Somerset

Somerset

The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

 in 1992.

Career

In 1959, as Doris Coysh she became the first woman cricket umpire. She went on to umpire in two women's Test matches, the second Test between England and Australia in 1963, and the third Test between England and New Zealand in 1966.