Pat Appleyard
Patricia C. Quinn (''née''
Lyons; b. 23 April 1927), best known by her former married name
Pat Appleyard, is a British former
rally driver and
co-driver. She is the daughter of
Jaguar Cars founder Sir
William Lyons. Co-driving with her then-husband,
Ian Appleyard, she won the
Alpine Rally's ''Coupe des Alpes'' each year from 1950 to 1953, in one of her father's company's
Jaguar XK120 cars. On the third of these triumphs, in 1952, the Appleyards were the first crew ever to be awarded the event's ''Coupe d'Or'' (Gold Cup), for having won three consecutive ''Coupes des Alpes''. During their competitive career the couple's major event victories also included the 1951 and 1953
RAC Rallies, and the 1951
Tulip Rally, and they were runners-up in the
1953 European Rally Championship. Her own driving career was less successful than her husband's, a fact that she herself partly put down to being unable to find suitably qualified female co-drivers, but nevertheless, she won a number of ladies' trophies in British events.
Patricia Appleyard remarried in 1962, and latterly became well known as a farmer of
rare breed livestock, including
Cotswold sheep and
English Longhorn cattle, at her farm in the
Cotswolds.
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