What is Mary Footman?
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox swimmer | name = Mary Footman | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | fullname = | nickname = | nationality = British | strokes = | club = [[Battersea Swimming Club]] | coach = professor Barrows | birth_date = {{birth year| 1897}} | birth_place = [[London]], United Kingdom | death_date = 20th-century | death_place = | height = <!-- {{convert|x.xx|m|ftin|abbr=on}} --> | weight = <!-- {{convert|xx|kg|lb st|abbr=on}} --> | show-medals =yes | medaltemplates = }} '''Mary Footman''' (born 1897) was a British [[swimming (sport)|swimmer]] in the early 20th-century from [[London]]. She was one of the earliest British female international swimmers. Footman was a member of the Battersea Swimming Club and was trained by professor Barrows.<ref name=Velez /> As of 1911 Footman was Champion of the South of England. She had also won the [[White Challenge Shield]] and many regional championships. In 1911 she competed at the 1911 international Ondine de Paris swimming competitions in [[Paris]], France. She won the international 100 metre event.<ref name=Velez>{{cite web|last=Velez|first=Anne|url=https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00608847/PDF/TheseVELEZ.pdf |title= LES FILLES DE L’EAU. UNE HISTOIRE DES FEMMES ET DE LA NATATION EN FRANCE(1905-1939)|work=Université d’Angers|date=2010|via=tel.archives-ouvertes.fr|access-date=10 November 2022|language=fr}}</ref> ==Personal life== Footman was born in 1987 in [[London]] in [[Poplar, London|Poplar]]. Her parents were Mary Ann Shepherd and Michael Francis Footman. Her younger sister [[Frances Footman]] (1888-1982) was also an international swimmer.<ref name=Velez /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/mary-footman-24-1d1wnnb |title= Mary Footman|website=ancestry.com|access-date=1 December 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/mary-footman-24-1d1kwsf |titl