Perhaps more than a trifle rough around the edges was the thirty year old Sophie Catherine who married her second husband when she was thirty and he seventy five. Born in Limerick and graduating in agriculture, she had an unnatural childhood, her father having murdered her mother. She died in London at the age of forty one, having mired herself in alcohol, after falling from a tram. One suspects that there was more of the Irish and less of the lady about this sad enthusiast of women's athletics whether or not she wore trousers in the cockpit.