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Margaret Boyd was an English lacrosse player, administrator and school teacher who founded the International Federation of Women's Lacrosse Associations in 1972 and was vice-president of the English Women's Lacrosse Association. She was an educator at Roedean School, a girl's public school in Sussex, then at Berkhamsted School and finally at Wycombe Abbey as the head of physical education and later a housemistress. In lacrosse, Boyd played as a defence wing for Bedford College, Boxmoor Ladies, the East Ladies Lacrosse Association and the England women's lacrosse team, which she captained from 1938 to her retirement from playing in 1951. She worked as a lacrosse coach in the United States and elsewhere for two decades. Boyd was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1971 and was inducted into the Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1993.