Betty Archdale
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Helen Elizabeth "Betty" Archdale (21 August 1907 – 1 January 2000) was a British educationalist and cricketer.
In 1934 and 1935, she was a captain of the England women's cricket team.
She was a member of the first English cricket team to tour Australia and New Zealand in 1934-35, winning by 2–0 over Australia.
This tour served to both raise the profile of women's cricket and repair some of the harm caused to Anglo-Australian cricket relations two years ago.
Early life
Archdale was born in London, the daughter of Helen Archdale (née Russel), a suffragette who was jailed for smashing windows at Whitehall, and later became a leading British feminist. Her father, an Irish professional soldier who died in World War I when Archdale was 11 years old. Emmeline Pankhurst was her godmother. Archdale studied at Bedales School in Hampshire, learning to play cricket and then headed to St Leonards School in St Andrews, Fife.
Archdale played right-handed batter and appeared in five Test matches for England between 1934 and 1937. She was England's first captain, leading the team on their first tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1934/35. She has played domestic cricket for several regional teams, as well as Kent.
Career
Archdale came from McGill University in Montreal, graduating in 1929 with a degree in economics and political science. She trained in London and studied law. She worked part of her studies in the Soviet Union, specialising in international law. She was admitted to Gray's Inn's Bar in 1938.
She served in Singapore as a wireless network operator during World War II, arriving in Singapore in July 1941 as one of a team of forty Wrens specially trained in wireless telegraphy. For assisting nurses in escaping from the war, she was given an Order of the British Empire.
She migrated to Australia in 1946 and was named principal of Sydney University's "Women's College," a position she held for ten years. Archdale served as a member of the University Senate for 25 years, as well as a television and radio presenter during the 1960s.
Archdale was headmistress of the private girls' school Abbotsleigh in Wahroonga, Sydney, for a year beginning in 1958. She was credited with breaking down the rigid system of discipline at the school, including sex education, and even cutting gloves and hats as part of the school uniform. She also reformed the curriculum, including physics and trimming back on British in favour of Australian, historical, and Australian history. Both Assembly Hall (1963) and Chapel (1965) date from that period. She and her brother Alexander Archdale, an actress, lived on an estate in Galston, Sydney, Australia.
Archdale was appointed as the inaugural member of the Australian Council for the Performing Arts in June 1968.