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Spencer Gore MP (1850 - 1906)

Spencer Gore - Born: 10/3/1850 Died: 19/4/1906 Spencer Gore was the first winner of a Grand Slam title at Wimbledon in 1877. Gore, an old Harrovian, was born and bred in Wimbledon and was a good all ...

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Stanley Doust (1879 - 1961)

Stanley Norwood Doust (29 March 1879 – 13 December 1961) was an Australian-born tennis player who captained his nation's Davis Cup team and was winner of the Mixed Doubles Trophy at Wimbledon. Ea...

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Neville Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of Lytton (1879 - 1951)

Neville Stephen Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of Lytton, OBE (6 February 1879–9 February 1951) was a British military officer and artist. He was a son of Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton and gr...

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Andrew Castle (1963 - d.)

Andrew Nicholas Castle (born 15 November 1963) is an English retired tennis professional, former British No. 1, and now a television presenter. Biography Castle was born in Epsom, Surrey. His...

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Björn Borg MP

Björn Rune Borg , born June 6, 1956 in Södertälje, Stockholm County, is a Swedish tennis player, one of the world leaders in the sport of all time. /Född 6 juni 1956 i Södertälje, Stockholms län, är en...

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Clarence Clark (1859 - 1937)

Clarence Munroe Clark (August 27, 1859 - June 29, 1937) was an American tennis player active near the end of the 19th century. Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, he was part of a distinguished fam...

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Joseph Clark, Sr. (1861 - 1956)

He was a graduate of Harvard University, 1883; Law School of University of Pennsylvania, 1885. He was a lawyer. Residence, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. ------------------------------ ---------...

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Richard Sears (1861 - 1943)

) Richard Dudley "Dick" Sears (b. October 16, 1861 d. April 8, 1943 both in Boston) – was an American male tennis player. He was the son of Frederic Richard Sears and Albertina Homer Shelton. He marr...

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Frederick John Perry MP (1909 - 1995)

Frederick John Perry (18 May 1909 – 2 February 1995) was a championship-winning English tennis and table tennis player who won 10 Majors including eight Grand Slams and two Pro Slams. Perry won three c...

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Whitelaw Reid (1913 - 2009)

) Whitelaw Reid (July 26, 1913 – April 18, 2009) was an American journalist who later served as editor, president and chairman of the family-owned New York Herald Tribune. An avid sportsman throughou...

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Amos Wilder (1895 - 1993)

Amos Niven Wilder (September 18, 1895 Madison, Wisconsin - May 4, 1993) was an American poet, minister, and theology professor. Life He studied two years at Oberlin College (1913–1915), but v...

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Andrew (Andy) Murray MP

Andy Murray is a Scottish professional tennis player. Murray is the only British player to reach the Wimbledon men's singles final in the open era, as well as the first British player in over a hun...

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Roger Federer MP

Roger Federer (German pronunciation: [ˈfeːdərər]; born 8 August 1981) is a Swiss professional tennis player who as of July 2012 is ranked World number 1 by the ATP. Federer was born in Binningen, Swi...

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Arthur William Charles Wentworth Gore (1868 - 1928)

Arthur Gore Born: January 02, 1868 Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England Died: December 01, 1928 International Tennis Hall of Fame Holding the record for most tournament appearances at Wimbledon with 3...

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Maud Edith Eleanor Watson MP (1864 - 1946)

Maud Edith Eleanor Watson (9 October 1864 – 5 June 1946 in Charmouth, Dorset) was an English tennis player and the first female Wimbledon champion. She was born in Harrow, London, the daughter of a l...

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Gustavo

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Vere St. Leger Goold MP (1853 - 1909)

Vere St. Leger Goold (2 October 1853 in Waterford, Ireland - 8 September 1909 Devil's Island, French Guiana penal colony) was an Irish tennis player. He quickly faded from the game and ended his life i...

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Reverend J. Thorneycroft Hartley (1849 - 1935)

John Thorneycroft Hartley (9 January 1849 – 21 August 1935) was an English tennis player - the only clergyman to win Wimbledon. Born in Tong, Shropshire Winner of the All Comer's Final - 1879 Gentlem...

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Rodney "Rod" George Laver MP

Rod Laver is a former tennis player from Australia. He was the World No.1 tennis player for seven consecutive years. He is also the only tennis player who has won Grand Slam singles title twice; first ...

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Patrick

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John McEnroe, Jr. MP

One of the most successful and high-profile players in the history of tennis, John McEnroe won seventeen Grand Slam titles, seventy-seven career single titles, and seventy-seven doubles titles througho...

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Charlotte Reinagle Sterry MP (1870 - 1966)

Charlotte Cooper Sterry nee Cooper (1870-1966) "All time tennis legend, five times Wimbledon Ladies Singles champion and first woman ever to become an Olympic Champion Charlotte Reinagle Cooper w...

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Marion Farquhar (1879 - 1965)

) Marion Jones Farquhar (born November 2, 1879 in Gold Hill, Nevada, USA – March 14, 1965) is a former American female tennis player. She won the women's singles titles at the 1899 and 1902 U.S. Cham...

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Margaret Phipps (1888 - 1968)

Enshrined in the Colorado Tennis Hall of Fame for winning 3 State Doubles titles and bringing some of world's best players to the state to compete, give exhibitions & teach young people the game

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Margaret

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Margaret Osborne du Pont (1918 - 2012)

Margaret Osborne duPont (born Margaret Evelyn Osborne; March 4, 1918 – October 24, 2012) was a World No. 1 American female tennis player. DuPont won a total of 37 singles, women's doubles, and mixe...

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Kung Gustaf V av Sverige MP (1858 - 1950)

Links: The Peerage Geneall Find a Grave Johann the Younger #2119 Wikipedia: English Svenska Norsk

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Francis Shields (1909 - 1975)

Francis Xavier ("Frank") Shields (November 18, 1909, in New York City - August 19, 1975, in New York City) was an outstanding amateur American tennis player of the 1920s and 1930s. Tennis career ...

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Gottfried von Cramm (1909 - 1976)

on left in profile photo Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr von Cramm (7 July 1909, Nettlingen – 8 November 1976) was a German amateur tennis champion and twice French Open champio...

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Robert Riggs MP (1918 - 1995)

Robert Riggs February 25, 1918-October 25, 1995 Parents: Gideon Riggs 1867- Robert, better known as Bobby Riggs, was a 1930s-40s tennis player who was the World No. 1 or the co-World No. 1 player f...

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Lindsay

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Andrew

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Ogden Phipps (1908 - 2002)

Ogden Phipps (November 26, 1908 - April 21, 2002) was an American stockbroker, court tennis champion and Hall of Fame member, thoroughbred horse racing executive and owner/breeder, and an art collect...

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Alice Marble (World No. 1 American tennis player and spy) (1913 - 1990)

Alice Marble (b. September 28, 1913, Beckwourth, California – d. December 13, 1990, Palm Springs, California) was a World No. 1 American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam championships (1936–40): 5...

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Andre Agassi MP

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Andre Kirk Agassi is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from the United States and is generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all tim...

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Stefanie

Las Vegas, NV, USA

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Helen Wills Moody (1905 - 1998)

Helen Newington Wills Roark (October 6, 1905 – January 1, 1998), also known as Helen Wills Moody, was an American tennis player. She has been described as "the first American born woman to achieve in...

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Don Budge (1915 - 2000)

John Donald ("Don" or "Donnie") Budge (June 13, 1915 – January 26, 2000) was an American tennis champion who was a World No. 1 player for five years, first as an amateur and then as a professional. H...

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Helen Jacobs (1908 - 1997)

Helen Hull Jacobs (August 6, 1908 – June 2, 1997) was a World No. 1 American female tennis player who won ten Grand Slam titles. She was born in Globe, Arizona, United States. Tennis career J...

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