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Walter Clopton Wingfield Walter Clopton Wingfield

Credit for this entry to:
Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

Plaque: Walter Clopton Wingfield

Erection date: 1987

Inscription

Greater London Council
Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, 1833 - 1912, father of lawn tennis, lived here.

Site: Walter Clopton Wingfield (1 memorial)

SW1, St George's Square, 33

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Walter Clopton Wingfield

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Lawn tennis

Invented, developed and patented by Wingfield.  The Wimbledon championships b...

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Walter Clopton Wingfield

Born at Rhysnant Hall, Montgomeryshire, Wales. Served in the 1st Dragoon Guar...

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Walter Clopton Wingfield

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Greater London Council

The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its lef...

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