Rosemary Smith
Irish rally driver
Rosemary Smith (7 August 1937 – 5 December 2023) was an Irish rally driver and driving instructor from Dublin, Ireland. She competed for the Rootes and Ford factory rally teams. As a factory team driver for the Rootes Group throughout the 1960s, she won several trophies in championship rally events around Europe. She competed in several endurance rally events around the world.
Early life
Rosemary Smith was born on 7 August 1937 in Dublin, Ireland. She was the youngest of three children to a Protestant father and a Catholic mother. Her father owned a garage and was an amateur motor racer. She learned to handle a car, her family's Vauxhall estate, by age 11 while on summer holidays, long before she could legally drive. Smith attended the Loreto High School Beaufort in Rathfarnham, Dublin, but had little enthusiasm for the school on account of mistreatment from the members of the convent. Smith found interests outside of school, including horseback riding, golf, field hockey, tennis, and driving.
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