- George Hillyard
Commander George Whiteside Hillyard,Royal Navy , (February 6 ,1864 -March 24 ,1943 ) was a maletennis player from theUnited Kingdom .Hillyard was born in
Hanwell , Middlesex. He was a naval cadet aboard theHMS Bacchante in 1881.He was also one of the foremost men's players on the international tennis circuit between 1886 and 1914. At the 1908 London Olympics he won the gold medal in men's doubles with
Reginald Doherty . From 1907 to 1925, he was secretary of theAll England Lawn Tennis Club and director of The Championships at Wimbledon.Hillyard also played first class cricket for Middlesex and Leicestershire from 1886 to 1896. He also excelled at
golf ,swimming , pigeon-shooting andbilliards .He married
Blanche Bingley , a six-time Wimbledon singles champion, on 13 July 1887 inGreenford ,Middlesex . The couple lived inThorpe Satchville ,Leicestershire between 1895 and 1925, and then moved to Bramfold,Pulborough ,Sussex , where Hillyard died on Wednesday, March 24, 1943.The couple had at least two children, Jack and Marjorie.
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