Doris Philips appeared in the Grand National Archery Meeting on her 21st birthday in 1893, and six weeks later married Church of England vicar Ernest Hermitage Day. He was editor of the Church Times for ten years and wrote many books on religion, church architecture, and archaeology. Although Doris enjoyed archery successes, mostly in Wales, the south-\west of England, and at club meetings at the Hereford Bowmen and Stretton Archers, she never enjoyed the same success at major events. Like many women archers of the day, they all had to contend with Alice Legh, the dominant female archer at that time. However, Day collected minor prizes at the Grand National meeting, including a prize for the best score at 50 yards in 1925, when she was more than 50-years-of-age. Day and her husband emigrated to South Africa in between the two World Wars. Her father, George Henry Philips was a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy-Lieutenant for the County of Radnorshire.
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