Walter Clopton Wingfield

Major Walter Clopton Wingfield MVO (16 October 1833 – 18 April 1912) was a Welsh inventor and a British Army officer who was one of the pioneers of lawn tennis. Inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1997, as the founder of modern lawn tennis, an example of the original equipment for the sport and a bust of Wingfield himself can be seen at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum.

• Born on 16 October 1833 in Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales, the son of Clopton Lewis Wingfield, major in the 66th Foot Regiment, and Jane Eliza, daughter of Sir John Mitchell KCB.
• He was of an English family traceable back to before the Norman conquest.
• His mother died in 1836 after the birth of her second child and his father died in 1846 of a bowel obstruction.
• Brought up by his uncle and great uncle.
• Educated at Rossall School, and in 1851 entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
• Commissioned a Cornet in the 1st Dragoon Guards and served in India.
• 1858 Wingfield became a captain
• 1860 he took part in the campaign in China and was present at the capture of Peking.
• Returned to England in 1861 and retired from the Dragoon Guards a year later.

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