Peggy Dawson-Scott, born Peggy Maccorkindale, was a British amateur tennis player who lived from 1920 to 1993. She was born in Oxfordshire and was active in the 1940s and 1950s. Her best known result came at the 1949 Wimbledon Championships, where she reached the singles quarter-finals, beating the sixth seed Jean Quertier on the way. Her first marriage, in 1940, was to the Scottish rugby union international William Penman, who was killed in the Second World War while serving with the Royal Air Force, and in 1945 she married Edward Dawson Scott.
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