Maureen Mockford

Maureen Mockford (27 March 1942 - 12 January 2008), born Maureen Phyllis Perry, was an international badminton player from Northern Ireland. She won her first Irish cap in the 1961/62 season and played for the Irish national team 18 times between 1961 and 1970. In 1970 she won the singles at the Irish National Badminton Championships, and the same year she represented Northern Ireland at the British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, entering the singles, the women's doubles with Joan McCloy, and the mixed doubles. She played for the Malone club in Belfast, which dominated the Ulster and Irish badminton scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later took up bowling, competing in Irish trials. She died in 2008.