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Juan Bautista Augurio Perera was a Spanish-born, English-based merchant and sportsman, credited alongside his friend Major Harry Gem as the earliest inventor of the game of lawn tennis.[1][2] Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified - by Athelstan 927 AD Area - Total 130...
Major Thomas Henry Gem (21 May 1819–4 November 1881), known as Harry Gem, was an English lawyer, soldier, writer and sportsman. ...
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Born in Spain, Perera moved to England in 1839, becoming naturalized, settling in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham and establishing a successful business importing Spanish merchandise.[3] Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Unified - by Athelstan 927 AD Area - Total 130...
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A keen rackets player, he was a member with Gem of the Bath Row Racquets Club in Lee Bank, a short walk from his house at 8 Ampton Road, Edgbaston. It was on the croquet lawn of this house that Perera and Gem were to develop a game that combined elements of both rackets and the Spanish game of pelota between 1859 and 1865,[4] naming it Lawn rackets, Lawn pelota or, eventually, Lawn tennis.[3] R. P. Keigwin (right) with AEJ Collins the Colleges racquets team at Clifton College circa 1902 Rackets (British English) or Racquets (American English), is an indoor racquet sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. ...
Lee Bank is an area of Birmingham, England. ...
Winslow Homer: Croquet, 1864 Croquet is a recreational game and, latterly, a competitive sport that involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing arena. ...
Pelota Vasca or Pelota Valenciana (in Spanish; pilota in Basque, Valenciano and Catalan; pelote in French, from Latin pila) is a name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using ones hand, a racket, a wooden bat (pala), or a basket propulsor, against a wall (front...
In 1872 Perera and Gem moved to Leamington Spa and established a club to play their new game on the lawns of the Manor House Hotel, opposite Perera's new home in Avenue Road. Perera left Leamington three years after Gem's death in 1881 and his life after this date is unknown.[5][3] Leamington Spa, properly Royal Leamington Spa but commonly just Leamington, (pronounced Lemmington — IPA: ) is a spa town in central Warwickshire, in England. ...
Tennis' true inventor? The invention of tennis is traditionally ascribed to Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, who published rules for a game he called sphairistike in 1873. It was this anniversary that was celebrated as the centenary of the game in 1973, and it is Wingfield's statue that stands at the headquarters of the Lawn Tennis Association. Major Walter Clopton Wingfield (October, 1833 - April 18, 1912) Welsh inventor (1874) of lawn tennis which he called Sphairistikè (Greek for playing ball). He authored two tennis works: The Book of the Game and He also invented the butterfly bicycle. ...
The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is the governing body of tennis in the United Kingdom. ...
It is now known that Gem and Perera had established an organized tennis club prior to this date, however, and had been playing the game privately for a decade or more.[2]
In addition, much less is known about Perera than his friend and fellow tennis pioneer Harry Gem, whose life is well documented as a prominent figure in several walks of Birmingham society. In a letter to The Field in November 1874, however, Gem himself largely credited Perera with the development of the game.[3] Major Thomas Henry Gem (21 May 1819–4 November 1881), known as Harry Gem, was an English lawyer, soldier, writer and sportsman. ...
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The Field is a magazine published by IPC Media which has been in print in Britain since 1853. ...
See also Major Thomas Henry Gem (21 May 1819–4 November 1881), known as Harry Gem, was an English lawyer, soldier, writer and sportsman. ...
Major Walter Clopton Wingfield (October, 1833 - April 18, 1912) Welsh inventor (1874) of lawn tennis which he called Sphairistikè (Greek for playing ball). He authored two tennis works: The Book of the Game and He also invented the butterfly bicycle. ...
References - ^ Rowley, Andrew, "Gem, Thomas Henry (1819–1881)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 10 July 2007
- ^ a b Tyzack, Anna, The True Home of Tennis Country Life, 22 June 2005
- ^ a b c d Osman, Arthur "Lawn tennis remembers its founding fathers", The Times, Thursday June 10, 1982
- ^ "Lawn Tennis and Major T. H. Gem" Birmingham Civic Society
- ^ Tennis Encyclopædia Britannica 2007. Accessed 11 July 2007
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