Pinkie Barnes

Lavender Rosamund Marguerite "Pinkie" Barnes (18 April 1915 – 14 September 2012) was an English international table tennis champion. Barnes did not like the short forms of any of her three Christian names and was keen to be called a nickname; "Pinkie" apparently derived from her babyhood complexion. She played for England eleven times between 1946 and 1950 and won various trophies including the Championship of the Netherlands. She was doubles finalist winning a silver medal at the 1949 World Table Tennis Championships with Joan Crosby, they lost in the final to the then World Champion, Hungary's Gizi Farkas and Scot Helen Elliot. Barnes won another silver medal as part of the women's team consisting of Joan Crosby, Margaret Franks and Adele Wood. She was considered particularly glamorous among sports personalities of the late 1940s.