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Lawn tennis

Categories: Sport / Games

Invented, developed and patented by Wingfield.  The Wimbledon championships began in 1877 and are the world's oldest tennis tournament.

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Lawn tennis

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Walter Clopton Wingfield

Greater London Council Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, 1833 - 1912, father of...

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Sports Heritage

Sports Heritage

It became part of what is now the Heritage Foundation.

Group, Sport / Games

3 memorials
Rev. E. K. Douglas

Rev. E. K. Douglas

Vicar of St Mary of Eton, the Eton Mission, appointed in 1889 and, finding that boys playing football in Victoria Park was problematic, he set in motion the acquisition of 337 acres of Hackney Mars...

Person, Religion, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Edward Beadon Turner, F.R.C.S.

Edward Beadon Turner, F.R.C.S.

For many years he took a prominent part in the work of the British Medical Association having been chairman of the representative body from 1915-1918 and a member of the Council from 1912-1931. He ...

Person, Medicine, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Edmond Hoyle

Edmond Hoyle

Writer on games. Wrote his first book, "A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist" in 1742. Died in London.

Person, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Lawrence Chubb

Lawrence Chubb

Sir Lawrence Wensley Chubb was an Anglo-Australian professional Secretary whose work was on environmentalist causes. Born in Australia, he migrated to England and in 1891 was working as an auction...

Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Sport / Games, Australia

1 memorial