Kathleen Josephine Hindle (née Patterson)

5 October 1948, Glasgow

    Kathleen Patterson in 1966. The large trophy was for winning the Glasgow Girls' Championship. The Scottish Girls' Trophy, which she also won that year, is in front of it.

  • Glasgow Girls' Champion 1964-65.
  • Glasgow Girls' Champion 1966 (5/5 in double-round event).
  • 1966 Dundee - winner of the first ever Scottish Girls' Champonship (6/6).
  • 1967 - Member of the Caissians team of schoolgirls and former pupils of Bellarmine Secondary School and Garnethill Convent Secondary School, both Glasgow, that won the Robertson Cup. The team defeated the established Edinburgh Ladies' CC and Glasgow Ladies' CC.
  • 1967 Lvov - participated (with Rosemary McWaters) in an international girls' tournament.
  • 1967 British Under-18 Girls' Champion (5/5).
  • 1975 - Joint Scottish Ladies' Champion (with Mrs M.E. Leask).
  • Represented Scotland in the Olympiads at: Haifa 1976 (2½/9, board 2); Buenos Aires 1978 (5½/12, board 2); Malta 1980 (5/12, board 1) and Lucerne 1982 (4½/10, board 3).
  • 1979 Scottish Ladies' Championship: tied with Helen Scott and Rosie Jackson, all on 5½/7. Helen Scott won the play-off to become champion.

Kathleen attended Bellarmine Secondary School, Glasgow, where she and several other girls were coached and encouraged by Gerald Bonner, a teacher at the school.

In 1968 she married the English internationalist, Owen Hindle. She then concentrated on her family and her profession for a while, though she did return to competition, including representing Scotland in four Olympiads.

See Kathleen Hindle's Archive here.

 

Compiled by Alan McGowan

updated 19/12/2018