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First lady Mavis is pride of the Pirates

WHILE doffing their caps to Gillian Burns at Waterloo and Eileen Shepherd at Percy Park, Cornish Pirates are going in to bat for that much loved former president Mrs Mavis Lavery who served the club in that capacity for 21 years from 1945 to 1966.
This follows recent articles in which Gillian was listed as the first lady president of a club in England, appointed in 2004, and then Eileen who manned the pumps at Percy Park between 2000 and 2004.
Mavis, below, was a considerable lady who married into rugby when she tied the knot with Dick Lawry, a doctor from Guys Hospital and former Penzance ...

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