Pat Smythe(1928-1996)
Renowned British show-jumper of the 1950s and 1960s, winning a bronze
medal as part of the Great Britain show-jumping team in the 1956
Olympic Games at Stockholm. In these games, herself and Belgium's
Brigitte Schockaert were the first women to compete in Olympic
show-jumping. She also wrote a number of successful equestrian and
autobiographical books, as well as a number of children's books. In
1956 she was awarded an OBE.