Some early male Scottish lawn tennis players

[newmark401]

I'm looking for some basic biographical information, including the first name(s), of some early male lawn tennis players, most, in not all, of whom were Scottish. These players were active in the years circa 1878-1888. They are listed alphabetically below:

W.W. Chamberlain
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R.A. Gamble
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C.J. Glenny

J.W. Glenny
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A.A. MacKay

A.M. MacKay
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C.C. Maconochie
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A.W. McGregor
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Any help would be greatly appreciated. In addition to the first name(s), I'm specifically looking for date and place of birth and date and place of death.

Mark

[sancti]

For that era, www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk would have the information regarding births and if they died in Scotland their deaths will also be listed

[higgsy]

Hi

C C Maconochie could possibly be Charles Cornelious Maconochie son of Rober Blair Maconochie and Charlotte Todd born 1852 Edinburgh.

Can find Charles and his wife in 1891 and 1901 census showing him as an advocate. I am struggling to find the family on the 1861 , 1871 and 1881 census but I think they lived in England at some point and Charles dad was a land prop. 


Hope this helps in your search

Norma

[newmark401]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply and the helpful information. I don't have access to the "scotlandspeople" website, which is why I posted my original message regarding those early tennis players.

Mark

Hi

C C Maconochie could possibly be Charles Cornelious Maconochie son of Rober Blair Maconochie and Charlotte Todd born 1852 Edinburgh.

Can find Charles and his wife in 1891 and 1901 census showing him as an advocate. I am struggling to find the family on the 1861 , 1871 and 1881 census but I think they lived in England at some point and Charles dad was a land prop. 


Hope this helps in your search

Norma

[sancti]

Mark, Everyone has access to the site 

[Tyrannosaurus]

As found by Norma, C. C. Maconochie is definitely Charles Cornelius Maconochie. He became Sheriff of the Lothians and Peebles. In this Glasgow Herald review of a book about 50 years of Scottish Lawn Tennis there’s mention of Sheriff Maconochie, also of A. Morrice Mackay. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19270809&id=9KBAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZKUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4041,5538355

Here’s the Sheriffs obit in the Glasgow Herald.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GKNAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jKUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3902%2C3413052

A. M. MacKay was Alexander Morrice MacKay. His obit in the GH has him as three times Scottish Lawn Tennis champion. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19551103&id=eWhAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kpQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4195,367114

This book published 1903? Has R.A. Gamble on page 63 as being now resident in India, with a photo on page 315.  http://archive.org/stream/lawntennisathom00myergoog#page/n83/mode/2up/search/gamble

The Times of India has references to an R. A. Gamble in a very senior government post. This Wikipedia article is for him and there’s the tennis connection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Arthur_Gamble
Here.s some info about him. http://www.rootschat.com/links/0ns8/

For J. W. Glenny, the Scotsman, 7 October, 1926, has an article headed ‘tennis players wedding’, and it’s about the wedding, in London, of Herbert Roper Barrett and Mrs Helen Glenny, widow of Mr John Waterhouse Glenny, of Hawick and Ipswich. Present were daughters of the bride, Misses Kate, Phyllis and Georgina Glenny, and also Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Glenny. On 8 March, 1919, there's a death notice for John W. Glenny who died at Broadview, Ipswich, on 6 March, age 50. He was the eldest son of the late James Glenny, Bucklands, Hawick.

Rex

[higgsy]

Fantastic , Well done Rex

Norma

[newmark401]

^^^^ Thanks to Rex for the reply and all of that great information. I presume that Alexander Morrice MacKay was related in some way to A.A. MacKay; ditto for John Waterhouse Glenny and C.J. Glenny?

Mark

[newmark401]

I see that Reginald Arthur Gamble was born in 1862, but I can't find a place of birth or an exact date of birth for him. He died on 7 July 1930 but, again, I can't find a place of death for him.
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Also, A.W. MacGregor is more than likely Arthur Wallace MacGregor, author of "Fifty Years of Lawn Tennis in Scotland". But I haven't been able to find any biographical information on him.

Any help would be appreciated.

Mark