1937 Men's British Open Squash Championship 1937 Men's British Open Squash Championship The 1937 Open Championship featured the defending open champion F. D. Amr Bey of Egypt being challenged by Jim Dear the professional champion. The first leg was held at Dear's club the Royal Automobile Club on 22 November. Bey won the first leg three games to two. The second leg took place at Bey's home Bath Club on 29 November. Bey won his fifth consecutive Open Championship title by clinching the second leg three games to one in a fifty-minute match.<br> After securing a sixth Amateur Championship in December 1937 the Egyptian retired from
James Townsend Mackay in Dublin 25 February 1862. Mackay discovered several species of plants new to the British Isles, and contributed largely to Sir J. E. Smith's "English Botany" (1790-1814). His herbarium is preserved at Trinity College Dublin. Several unsuccessful attempts were made to perpetuate his name, which is now borne by a genus of seaweeds, "Mackaya", so named by Dr. Harvey, and by a species of heather, "Erica mackayana". James Townsend Mackay James Townsend Mackay (1775–1862) was a Scottish botanist who lived in Ireland. He was born in Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire, about 1775. After being educated at the parish school he was trained