Alison Violet Burton (3 November 1921 – 9 June 2014) was a left-handed Australian tennis player.[1] She andJoyce Wood won the girls' doubles competition at the Australian Championships (now theAustralian Open) in 1938, 1939 and 1940.[2]
Burton was born and grew up inMelbourne, Australia. She was educated atHuntingtower School[3] and theUniversity of Melbourne, being awarded a tennis blue in 1941.[4]
As a schoolgirl, Burton represented the state ofVictoria in the 1938 and 1939 Wilson Cup matches. In 1938 and 1939 she also won the Victorian junior championship and was runner-up for the Australian title.[5]
In 1952, she partnered withMary Bevis Hawton and reached the finals of the women's doubles at theAustralian Championships.
On 17 September 1946,[6] Burton married fellow Australian tennis player,Robert (Bob) Baker atLincoln College Chapel, Oxford, England.[7] They later returned toTasmania, Baker's home state, and lived in Hobart. Their daughter,Barbara Baker, became a judge of the Federal Circuit Court, and in 2021 was appointed as the 29thGovernor of Tasmania.[8]
Burton died in South Hobart in 2014.[1]