Margaret Boyd

Margaret Boyd (17 January 1913 to 21 November 1993) was an English lacrosse player, administrator and school teacher. As a player she took the defence wing position for Bedford College, Boxmoor Ladies, the East Ladies Lacrosse Association and the England women's lacrosse team, which she captained from 1938 until she retired from playing in 1951. She later coached lacrosse in the United States and elsewhere for about twenty years. Her wider influence came through administration: she became vice-president and later president of the English Women's Lacrosse Association, and in 1972 she founded the International Federation of Women's Lacrosse Associations, known today as World Lacrosse. Alongside this she worked as an educator at Roedean School, Berkhamsted School and Wycombe Abbey, where she was head of physical education and later a housemistress. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1971 and was inducted into the Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1993.