When the vicar won Wimbledon

Richard Bewes  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Jul 2015
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When the vicar won Wimbledon

J.T. Hartley winning the cup for the second time, 24 July, 1880

Richard Bewes mixes the gospel with the strawberries and cream

‘Lawn Tennis’, wrote J.B. Priestley, ‘is a name with the mildest associations.

‘It suggests a companion pastime to croquet, a late-Victorian thing, bright with petticoats and delicately clouded with curates.’

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