Barbara Lambton Holland OBE

[mezentia]

After chatting to a newly discovered cousin the other day, he mentioned that his father recollected staying on a farm (possibly in or near Masham, Yorkshire) with the Holland family, and that one of his contemporaries was one Barbara Holland who played hockey for England. Barbara would have been the niece of my great aunt's husband, Ted Holland, well known in and around Masham.

I've found an obituary for Barbara's father, Frank Holland in the Guardian of 18 Jan 1960, but I don't have a Newspapers.com subscription, so can anyone help with getting a transcript of Frank's obituary.

Barbara is also very elusive on Google. There is an obituary in the Ripon Gazette, but the link is broken. There's also an obituary in the Ripon Grammar School newsletter, but I can't seem to to to that issue either.

I do know that she married someone called Lambton, but I can't find a marriage index entry anywhere. She went by the name Barbara Lambton Holland. She was born in Masham on 29 June 1926, and died on 23 March 2006. There is a will, so I will order a copy of that to see if it sheds any further light on her life.

On the basis that Barbara was head of the England Womens Hockey Association, and got an OBE for her services to English hockey, I would have thought that there would be much more information about her. It seems she doesn't even rate a Wikipedia entry  Can anyone help me to discover more about this lady?

[JenB]

I do know that she married someone called Lambton, but I can't find a marriage index entry anywhere. She went by the name Barbara Lambton Holland.

On a 1956 passenger list (going to Australia) she is entered as Barbara Lambton Holland, marital status single  

[carom]

https://www.hockeymuseum.net/index.php

There is a hockey museum in Woking, link above.
 I also read that Bath Uni hold a hockey collection, archivist Lizzie Richards.

[KGarrad]

1939 National Register shows Barbara Holland (Lambton).
This indicates a change of surname to Lambton at some point between 1939 and the 1990s.

Could be a marriage; could be her mother remarried?
Or a partner was named Lambton?

[KGarrad]

OBE awarded in 1992 Birthday Honours List to Miss Barbara Lambton Holland.

[arthurk]

My wife knew her as housemistress and deputy head when she was at Ripon GS.

As an Old Riponian, she might be able to see parts of the website that others can't, so she'll have a look later to see what she can find.

[JenB]

1939 National Register shows Barbara Holland (Lambton).
This indicates a change of surname to Lambton at some point between 1939 and the 1990s.

She was using the name Lambton as far back as 1956 (reply #1)

I do know that she married someone called Lambton

Are you basing this on the name entered on the 1939 register? This can indicate a change of name, but not necessarily a marriage, i.e. change by deed poll.

[Christine53]

I'm not sure why the name Lambton has been added to the 1939 Register entry , but I think it's a family name from her mother's side.

Frank Holland  m Dora Brown 1925 Bedale 9D 947.

In the 1901 census in Knaresborough District

Richard L Brown
Jane Brown
George H Brown
Dora Brown 2

 RG13; Piece: 4049; Folio: 84; Page: 3

Richard Lambton Brown married Jane Hick 3Q 1893 Scarborough 9d 601

Certificates would confirm .

[arthurk]

It looks as though the school magazines haven't been digitised before 2011, but the Old Rips' secretary may well be able to dig out the relevant issue and scan the article for you. See this page for more info:

http://www.ripongrammar.co.uk/about/clocktower-magazine/

However, my wife does have a copy of the school's 450th anniversary publication, published in 2005, which includes a brief outline of her life - see image below.