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GREYSTONES ARCHAEOLOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL VOLUME 9

founder member of Greystones Golf Club in 1895 and in 1900
his brother Edward presented a cup to an EK Figgis playing with
a handicap of 3. A Miss Figgis was also playing that day,
confirming the club’s early support of women golfers. The club
also boasted Sheila Tobin (later Jameson) who became Irish
champion. Averil was ladies captain of Greystones Golf Club in
1927, but it was the male Deverells who were committee
members, including legal figures such as Judge Wylie, and
Alexander F Blood QC. Another active member was William
D’Argaville Carr of The Tunnel, St Vincent Road, son of James
Anderson Carr, Chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant's Household. In
1919 he gave a wedding reception here for Colonel Massy-
Westropp and Gabrielle Evelyn Montgomery, daughter of
Colonel and Mrs Montgomery of Greystones. A journalist and
former partner in Carr and Co with the publisher Alfred, the future
Lord Harmsworth, and married to Mabel Alexandrina Gordon,
daughter of Sarah Montgomery, he was possibly related to
Averil’s family by marriage and/or blood.

Averil’s brother William also played for Greystones Cricket
Club: August 1913 saw them on the pitch in beautiful weather,
with one of the Morphy brothers as steward. Athletics and
swimming also featured. Averil’s love of dogs, particularly cairn
terriers, is evident from her photographs and she was to open a
dog kennels at Ellesmere, initially to supplement her Bar
earnings. Her passion won her show prizes and was shared with
Muriel Bewley late into their old age - Judith Crowe recalls Averil
regularly visiting Muriel at her home, Rossinver, accompanied by
her dogs.

The family were well connected - charity events and picnics
with Lady Powerscourt were on the agenda, and the men
reinforced their links through Freemasonry lodges. It was a
typical Anglo-Irish pattern, apparently safe, rooted, and

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