Audrey Beeton

Edith Audrey Mayson Beeton, later Audrey Levick, was an English lacrosse player who proposed founding the Ladies' Lacrosse Association. She was the granddaughter of Isabella Beeton, author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, and attended Roedean School, one of the first schools with a lacrosse team, where she played as a shooter. In 1909 she captained the Southern Ladies' lacrosse team. In January 1912 she proposed an association to standardise the rules across women's school and club teams, and in April 1912 the Ladies' Lacrosse Association was formed with Beeton as honorary secretary. It issued its rules in 1913, staged the first international match that year and had 100 member clubs by 1914. During the First World War she served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, and in 1918 she married the naval surgeon Murray Levick.