FIRST WOMAN CYCLIST
The first woman to ride a bicycle is stated to have been Mary March bank, of Courthill. Dumfries-shire, who, in 1843. when she was only three, sat on the first bicycle ever built, and four years later rode what was said to be the second bicycle in the world. It is known that the first bicycle was built about the year 1840 by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, a manufacturer, of Courthill. Mary Marchbank, who was Macthe first machine at the age of three. The secretary of the Cyclists’ Touring Club states: “There is no doubt that JVlarv Marchbank was the first of her sex ever to ride a bicycle, and as such she should be remembered.’'
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 December 1938, Page 13
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117FIRST WOMAN CYCLIST Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 December 1938, Page 13
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