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in London, and cost between five and ten guineas. In his version the game was played on an hour-glass shaped court and the net was higher (4 feet 8 inches). The service had to be made from a diamond-shaped box at one end only and the service had to bounce beyond the service line instead of in front
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Wingfield became vice-president of "The
Universal Cookery and Food Association". In around 1890 he founded a culinary society called "Le Cordon Rouge" which was intended to further the development of the science of cookery. At the same time, he was active again as an inventor and experimented with
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instigated a meeting at the MCC to establish a universal set of rules and
Wingfield was invited to participate. Wingfield's hourglass court and scoring method were adopted and Wingfield considered his sport was now entrusted to the MCC. During this time he suffered personal tragedies including the
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Wingfield married Alice Lydia
Cleveland, daughter of a general, in Bangalore Madras India in 1858. They had three sons, Watkin Harold (1859-1876), Rowland Pehrhyn (1861-1882), and Walter Clopton (Tig) (1871-1886). All three died tragically young. Alice survived him by many years and died in the
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and began marketing his game in the spring of 1874 selling boxed sets that included rubber balls imported from
Germany as well as a net, poles, court markers, rackets and an instruction manual. The sets were available from Wingfield's agent, French and Co. in
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claimed that in 1869 Major
Wingfield gave a demonstration of the game to him in the garden of his Berkeley Square house, although in that year Wingfield was not a major. Another attribution was to a party held at
312:(which was poor Greek using a feminine adjective meaning "pertaining to a ball game" without an appropriate noun.) Between July 1874 and June 1875 1,050 tennis sets were sold, mainly to the aristocracy.
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and there were many who had the leisure time to pursue the sport and who owned croquet lawns that could be adapted for it. The precise date that
Wingfield brought it to the public is uncertain.
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and prior to this, in cooperation with the MCC representatives, developed a new set of rules that excluded some of
Wingfield's introductions. Wingfield authored two tennis works:
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in 1997 as the founder of modern lawn tennis, an example of the original equipment for the sport and a bust of
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developing mental illness of his wife and the death of his three young sons and he lost all interest in the game. In 1877 the
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and was present at the capture of Peking. He returned to
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Wandsworth asylum in November 1934, aged 92, and buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.
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in 1997 for his contribution to tennis. The Wingfield Restaurant at the
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During the decade he was based at his family estate, Rhysnant,
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New and Improved Court for Playing the Ancient Game of Tennis
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Grass tennis courts: how to construct and maintain them
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142:Wingfield was born on 16 October 1833 in
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114:(16 October 1833 – 18 April 1912) was a
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40:Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
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577:. 22 August 1902. pp. 5461–5462.
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194:Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms
694:Wingfield : Edwardian Gentleman
2760:19th-century British Army personnel
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2051:Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers
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2785:People educated at Rossall School
780:International Tennis Hall of Fame
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653:International Tennis Hall of Fame
411:International Tennis Hall of Fame
265:were demonstrating their game of
185:for the county and served in the
156:Royal Military College, Sandhurst
128:International Tennis Hall of Fame
2810:Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery
664:"Eating and Drinking / Catering"
509:Walter Clopton Wingfield tennis.
192:In 1870 he was appointed to the
743:USTA – Wingfield the Mysterious
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605:Sport and the Making of Britain
350:The Major's Game of Lawn Tennis
651:Major Walter Clopton Wingfield
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2237:Monique Kalkman-Van Den Bosch
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698:. Peter Randall Publishing.
526:The Original Rules of Tennis
485:Gillmeister, Heiner (1998).
132:Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum
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690:George E Alexander (1986).
610:Manchester University Press
409:. He was inducted into the
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16:Inventor of modern tennis
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2623:William McChesney Martin
2100:Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
729:Walter Clopton Wingfield
417:is named in his honour.
187:Montgomeryshire Yeomanry
107:Walter Clopton Wingfield
25:Walter Clopton Wingfield
2307:Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
2286:Margaret Osborne duPont
2202:Evonne Goolagong Cawley
2009:Molla Bjurstedt Mallory
1879:Kathleen McKane Godfree
444:The True Home of Tennis
321:Marylebone Cricket Club
2658:Mary Ewing Outerbridge
2349:Chantal Vandierendonck
802:Manuel Alonso Areizaga
602:Birley, Derek (1993).
524:Barrett, John (2010).
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304:of it. He adopted the
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407:Kensal Green Cemetery
392:Royal Victorian Order
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138:Family and early life
98:Kensal Green Cemetery
2328:Margaret Smith Court
1956:Lesley Turner Bowrey
1823:Dorothy Bundy Cheney
1765:Court tennis players
1163:Malcolm Greene Chace
386:On 22 November 1902
346:The Book of the Game
333:John Moyer Heathcote
126:. Inducted into the
2721:Dennis Van der Meer
2272:Martina Navratilova
2121:Sarah Palfrey Cooke
1995:Maud Barger-Wallach
1970:Nancye Wynne Bolton
1103:Gottfried von Cramm
2805:People from Ruabon
2588:Robert J. Kelleher
1773:Pierre Etchebaster
1622:Nicola Pietrangeli
1510:Yevgeny Kafelnikov
1394:R. Norris Williams
1289:Maurice McLoughlin
574:The London Gazette
553:"Court Circular".
532:. pp. 13–19.
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2693:Ted Tinling
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2511:Steve Flink
2497:Donald Dell
2483:Mike Davies
2462:Bud Collins
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2321:Pam Shriver
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2188:Chris Evert
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2128:Helen Wills
2058:Shirley Fry
2023:Mary Browne
1780:Tom Pettitt
1720:Fred Stolle
1685:Dick Savitt
1664:Marat Safin
1615:Budge Patty
1573:Don McNeill
1489:Roy Emerson
1475:Rick Draney
1440:Arthur Ashe
1401:Sidney Wood
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1310:Bobby Riggs
1282:George Lott
1261:Jack Kramer
1082:Mervyn Rose
1026:Alex Olmedo
949:Bryan Grant
942:Arthur Gore
886:Jim Courier
569:"No. 27467"
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365:Blue plaque
348:(1873) and
325:Real tennis
238:real tennis
212:Lawn tennis
124:lawn tennis
2744:Categories
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2679:Gene Scott
2665:Brad Parks
2651:Original 9
2560:Lamar Hunt
2518:David Gray
2427:Vic Braden
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2342:May Sutton
2086:Doris Hart
2044:Lottie Dod
1706:Randy Snow
1699:Stan Smith
1692:Vic Seixas
1643:Tony Roche
1629:Pat Rafter
1545:Ivan Lendl
1496:David Hall
1454:Björn Borg
1275:Art Larsen
1054:Fred Perry
612:. p.
528:. Oxford:
430:References
388:Edward VII
356:Later life
287:The Sketch
275:Birmingham
234:Vulcanised
202:Edward VII
59:1833-10-16
1538:Rod Laver
1517:Jan Kodeš
1191:John Doeg
1149:Don Budge
1142:Karl Behr
998:Gene Mako
555:The Times
259:Harry Gem
88:, England
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2532:Gustaf V
1240:Joe Hunt
956:Lew Hoad
714:17698782
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352:(1874).
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591:. USTA.
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