Frances Issette Jessie Pearson (2 November 1861 – 25 April 1941) was an English golfer and the first honorary secretary of the Ladies Golf Union (LGU) which was founded in 1893.[1]
Pearson was born at Gatcombe House, Littlehempston, near Totnes, Devon.[1] Her given names were Mable Frances, but she used the names Frances Issette Jessie and was known as Issette. In 1911, she married Thomas Horrocks Miller (1846–1916)[1] of Singleton Hall, Singleton, near Poulton-le-Fylde. In 1916, upon her husband's death, she became life tenant of Singleton Hall.[2]
Golf careeredit
At the second national ladies' golf championship in 1894
In 1893 Pearson visited Littlestone golf club in the autumn of 1893 to see if the national championship could be hosted there. She was hosted by Littlestone's ladies's captain Mabel Stringer. Stringer beat her on their first game together, but they became life long friends and colleagues.[3]
While telegraphic addresses were in use the LGU's address was "Issette".[1] A brand of ladies' golfwear is named "Issette" in her memory.[5][6] She founded a cup and a handicap system that allowed men and women of mixed abilities to compete together.[7]
Publicationsedit
The Ladies' Golf Union year book / compiled and edited by the Hon. Sec. Ladies' Golf Union (I. Pearson). (London : Ladies' Golf Union, 189?)[8]
Our Lady of the Green. A book of ladies' golf. With chapters by I. Pearson, A. B. Pascoe and others. Edited by L. Mackern and M. Boys. (London : Lawrence & Bullen, 1899)[9]
Referencesedit
^ abcdPottle, Mark. "Pearson [married name Miller], (Frances) Issette Jessie (1861–1941), golfer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65150. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Singleton History Group (2009). Singleton's Story: The Fylde's Model Village. Blackpool, United Kingdom: Landy Publishing. p. 8. ISBN9781872895802.
^Kirkwood, Gillian (June 2005). "Littlestone 1894". Through the Green - the Journal of the British Golf Collectors' Society.
^"Catalogue record: LGU year book". British Library. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
^"Catalogue record: Our lady of the green..." British Library. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
December 18, 2023
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