Brenda Kenyon

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Brenda Kenyon
Personal information
NationalityBritish (Northern Irish)
Bornc.1932 [1]
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Sport
Sport Fencing
Event
Foil
ClubColeraine Fencing Club
Belfast FC
Ajax FC

Brenda Kenyon married name Berner (born c.1932) is a former fencer from Northern Ireland, who represented Northern Ireland at the British Empire and Commmonwealth Games (now Commonwealth Games).

Biography

Kenyon was educated Strathearn School and Victoria College and attended Queen's University Belfast. [2] She was a member of the Coleraine Fencing Club [3] and represented Northern Ireland in comeptition. [4]

Kenyo was a teacher in Strathearn School in Belfast and holder of the Northern and Southern Ireland national titles [5] and by 1957 had associations with both the Belfast Fencing Club and the Ajax Fencing Club. [1]

She represented the 1958 Northern Irish Team [6] at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, [7] participating in the foil event. [8]

In 1962 Kenyon was still fencing and coaching for the Amateur Fencing Association and was head of modern languages at Strathearn School. [9]

After teaching at Coleraine High School for two years, she became headmistress of the Cambridge House Grammar School in 1972 [2] and then principal of Victoria College in 1976. [10]

References

  1. 1 2 "Woman Fencing Champion" . Belfast Telegraph. 23 August 1957. p. 3. Retrieved 14 November 2025 via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. 1 2 "A Fencing Expert" . Ballymena Observer. 2 March 1972. p. 1. Retrieved 14 November 2025 via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. "helping Hand" . Northern Whig. 8 February 1954. p. 7. Retrieved 14 November 2025 via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. "Women members of the Northern Ireland Team" . Belfast News-Letter. 8 February 1954. p. 6. Retrieved 14 November 2025 via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. "fifteen-year-old Joan Mayne" . Northern Whig. 4 March 1957. p. 3. Retrieved 14 November 2025 via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. "Northern Ireland Cardiff 1958". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
  7. "N.I. Empire Games Choices" . Northern Whig. 28 May 1958. p. 5. Retrieved 14 November 2025 via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. "Fencing Foil Individual - Women Cardiff 1958". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
  9. "Women members of the Northern Ireland Team" . Belfast News-Letter. 13 November 1962. p. 6. Retrieved 14 November 2025 via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. "City post for Mrs Berner" . Ballymena Observer. 27 November 1975. p. 6. Retrieved 14 November 2025 via British Newspaper Archive.