{{Short description|British rally driver and co-driver (1927–2025)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:Jaguar XK120 'NUB120' - Flickr - exfordy.jpg|thumb|right|The Appleyards' 1950, 1951 and 1952 ''Coupe des Alpes''-winning Jaguar XK120, registration ''NUB 120'', being demonstrated at Goodwood in 2008]] '''Patricia C. Quinn''' (''née'' '''Lyons'''; 23 April 1927 – 11 October 2025), best known by her former married name '''Pat Appleyard''',<ref name=motorsport2018>{{Cite magazine|title= The Number of the Best |author= Cruickshank, Gordon |date= August 2018 |magazine= Motor Sport |volume= 94 |issue= 8 |pages= 88–94 }}</ref> was a British rally driver and co-driver.
==Early life and motorsport career== Patricia C. Lyons was born on 23 April 1927,<ref name=fastladies>{{Cite book|title= Fast Ladies: Female Racing Drivers 1888 to 1970 |author= Bouzanquet, Jean François |year= 2009 |chapter= Pat Lyons (1927– ) |page= 98 |publisher= Veloce Publishing Ltd. |isbn= 978-1-84584-225-3 }}</ref> the daughter of Jaguar Cars founder Sir William Lyons. Co-driving with her then-husband, Ian Appleyard, she won the Alpine Rally's ''Coupe des Alpes'' each year from 1950 to 1953, in one of her father's company's Jaguar XK120 cars.<ref name=motorsport2018 /> On the third of these triumphs, in 1952, the Appleyards were the first crew ever to be awarded the event's ''Coupe d'Or'' (Gold Cup), for having won three consecutive ''Coupes des Alpes''. During their competitive career the couple's major event victories also included the 1951 and 1953 RAC Rallies, and the 1951 Tulip Rally, and they were runners-up in the 1953 European Rally Championship. Her own driving career was less successful than her husband's, a fact that she herself partly put down to being unable to find suitably qualified female co-drivers,<ref name=motorsport2018 /> but nevertheless, she won a number of ladies' trophies in British events.<ref name=fastladies />
==Later life and death== Appleyard remarried in 1962, and latterly became well known as a farmer of rare breed livestock, including Cotswold sheep and English Longhorn cattle, at her farm in the Cotswolds.<ref name=countrylife>{{Cite web|author= Henson, Adam |author-link= Adam Henson|title= Local Legends |url= http://www.cotswoldlife.co.uk/people/adam-henson-local-legends-1-1568079 |date= 18 January 2012 |website= Cotswold Life |publisher= Archant Community Media Ltd. |access-date= 25 July 2018 }}</ref><ref name=motorsport2018 /> She died on 11 October 2025, at the age of 98.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pat Quinn 23.04.1927 – 11.10.2025 |url=https://www.longhorncattlesociety.com/blog/pat-quinn-23-04-1927-11-10-2025 |website=Longhorn Cattle Society |access-date=20 October 2025 |date=13 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Pat Appleyard, glamorous rally driver who formed a winning team with her husband Ian |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2025/10/25/pat-appleyard-ian-jaguar-lyons-alpine-rally-xk120/ |access-date=25 October 2025 |publisher=The Telegraph |date=25 October 2025}}</ref>
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