{{short description|English snooker player (born 1937)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Use British English|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox snooker player | name = Maureen Baynton | image = File:Maureen Barrett 1953.png | caption = Baynton in 1953, aged 16 | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1937}} | birth_place = England | Sport country = {{ENG}} | Professional = | High ranking = | Official maximums = | Best finish = | medals-expand = | medals = }}
'''Maureen Baynton''' (born Maureen Barrett in 1937) is an English former snooker and billiards player. She held the record for winning most Women's Amateur Snooker Championships after winning eight times between 1954 and 1968, and also won seven Women's Amateur Billiards championships between 1955 and 1980. She was runner-up in the 1983 World Women's Snooker Championship.
==Biography== Baynton began to play snooker and billiards at Peckham Health Centre, teaching herself, from the age of 11. Three years after taking up the games, she was the girls champion at both snooker and billiards.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=No Challengers For This Title |work=The Belfast Telegraph |date=2 December 1952 |via=The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 30 August 2019.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Confidence of a Champion |work=Daily Mirror |page=10 |date=31 December 1952 |via=The British Newspaper won a record 8 Women's Amateur Snooker Championships between 1954 and 1968, and 7 Women's Amateur Billiards championships between 1955 and 1980.Archive. Retrieved 30 August 2019.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Teenage Topics |work=Liverpool Echo |date=22 October 1955 |via=The British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 30 August 2019.}}</ref>
After a highly successful playing career in which she won a record eight Women's Amateur Snooker Championships between 1954 and 1968, and seven Women's Amateur Billiards championships between 1955 and 1980, she retired from competition for several years.<ref name="EVERTON" /> When the World Women's Snooker Championship was staged in 1976, Baynton entered, reaching the semi-final, where she lost to Muriel Hazeldene.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hunn |first=David |date=11 April 1976 |title=Women Pocket Men's Pride |work=The Observer |page=25 |id={{ProQuest|<!-- Add ProQuest data here -->}}|via=}}</ref> In the 1983 tournament she went one stage further, reaching the final, where she lost 5–8 to Sue Foster.<ref name="WWS" /><ref name="Harvey" />
Throughout her career, she used the cue that she received, aged 10, for winning the Schoolgirls Championship in 1947. It is now on display at the Billiards and Snooker Heritage Collection in Liverpool.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.snookerheritage.co.uk/the-cue-collection/the-maureen-bayton-cue/ |title=The Maureen Baynton Cue |website=snookerheritage.co.uk |publisher=Billiards and Snooker Heritage Collection |access-date=30 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824093644/https://www.snookerheritage.co.uk/the-cue-collection/the-maureen-bayton-cue/ |archive-date=24 August 2019 }}</ref>
==Titles and achievements==
'''Snooker''' {| class="wikitable" ! Outcome !! No. !! Year !! Championship !! Opponent !! Score !! Ref. |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 1 || 1954 || Women's Amateur Snooker Championship || || || <ref name="EVERTON">{{cite book |last=Everton |first=Clive |date=1985 |title=Guinness Snooker – The Records |publisher=Guinness Superlatives Ltd |pages=154–156 |isbn=0851124488 }}</ref> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 2 || 1955 || Women's Amateur Snooker Championship || || || <ref name="EVERTON" /> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 3 || 1956 || Women's Amateur Snooker Championship || || || <ref name="EVERTON" /> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 4 || 1961 || Women's Amateur Snooker Champion || Thea March || 4–0 || <ref name="BS61">{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=WBA Championships. Maureen Barrett still supreme: Miss T March's splendid feat |work=Billiards and Snooker |publisher=Billiards Association and Control Club |location=London |date=June 1961 |page=8}}</ref> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 5 || 1962 || Women's Amateur Snooker Champion || Rita Holmes || 4–1 || <ref name="Birmingham Daily Post">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Snooker |work=Birmingham Daily Post |location=London|date=5 May 1962 |page=13 }}</ref> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 6 || 1964 || Women's Amateur Snooker Championship || || || <ref name="EVERTON" /> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 7 || 1966 || Women's Amateur Snooker Championship || || || <ref name="EVERTON" /> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 8 || 1968 || Women's Amateur Snooker Championship || || || <ref name="EVERTON" /> |- !scope="row" style="background:#ffa07a;"|Runner-up || 9 || 1983 || Women's World Snooker Championships || Sue Foster || 5–8 || <ref name="WWS">{{cite web |url=https://www.womenssnooker.com/about/world-champions/ |title=World Champions |website=womenssnooker.com |publisher=World Women's Snooker Collection |access-date=30 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818024929/https://www.womenssnooker.com/about/world-champions/ |archive-date=18 August 2019 }}</ref><ref name="Harvey">{{cite news |date=29 May 1983 |title=Harvey out of team |work=The Observer |page=42 |via=NewsBank. Retrieved 22 July 2019 |quote=Sue in pocket: SUE FOSTER picked up a cheque for £2,000 after clinching the women's world snooker championship, just £28,000 short of the figure Steve Davis received for taking this year's men's title. Sue, from Tamworth, beat Maureen Baynton, a 46-year-old Surrey housewife, 8–5 in the final at Brean Sands, Somerset.}}</ref> |}
'''Billiards'''
{| class="wikitable" ! Outcome !! No. !! Year !! Championship !! Opponent !! Score !! Ref. |- !scope="row" style="background:#ffa07a;"|Runner-up || 1 || 1954 || World Women’s Billiards Championship || Helen Futo || 430–448 || <ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Today's Sports Diary |work=Daily Herald |page=4 |date=15 February 1954 |via=British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 4 October 2019.}}</ref> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 2 || 1955 || World Women’s Billiards Championship || E Morland-Smith || 451–401 || <ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Quick Looks |work=Daily Herald |page=9 |date=22 April 1955 |via=British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 4 October 2019.}}</ref> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 3 || 1956 || World Women’s Billiards Championship || || || <ref name="EVERTON" /> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 4 || 1957 || World Women’s Billiards Championship || E Morland-Smith || 553–334 || <ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Quick Looks |work=Birmingham Daily Post |page=11 |date=11 April 1957 |via=British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 4 October 2019.}}</ref> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 5 || 1964 || World Women’s Billiards Championship || Rae Craven || 649–336 || <ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Billiards |work=Birmingham Daily Post |page=15 |date=8 April 1964|via=British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 5 October 2019.}}</ref> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 6 || 1966 || World Women’s Billiards Championship || Vera Youle || 514–319 || <ref>{{cite magazine |last=Bartley |first=Sally |title=Maureen Baynton wins both billiards and snooker titles yet again |magazine=Billiards and Snooker |page=9 |issue=May 1966 }}</ref> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 7 || 1968 || World Women’s Billiards Championship || Rae Craven || 434–265 || <ref>{{cite magazine |last=Tabor |first=Ethel |title=Women's Championships |magazine=Billiards and Snooker |page=11 |issue=August 1968 }}</ref> |- !scope="row" style="background:#ffa07a;"|Runner-up || 8 || 1978 || World Women’s Billiards Championship || Vera Selby || 319–366 || <ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Today's Sports Diary |work=Daily Herald |page=4 |date=15 February 1954 |via=British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 4 October 2019.}}</ref> |- !scope="row" style="background:#98FB98"| Winner || 9 || 1979 || World Women’s Billiards Championship || Vera Selby || || <ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Cue ace Vera to join paid ranks |work=Newcastle Evening Chronicle |page=20 |date=17 September 1979|via=British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 14 November 2019.}}</ref> |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Women's world champions of English billiards}}
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