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Re: A.W. Blake, an early male English (?) lawn tennis player
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 15 March 14 20:45 GMT (UK) »
Gentleman more fits the bill than the painter did  ;) Great searches by everyone.

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Re: A.W. Blake, an early male English (?) lawn tennis player
« Reply #19 on: Saturday 15 March 14 21:02 GMT (UK) »
Well done Sandra!

Afraid I was too busy watching the rugby!! ;D ;D :-[
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Re: A.W. Blake, an early male English (?) lawn tennis player
« Reply #20 on: Saturday 15 March 14 21:26 GMT (UK) »
Excellent outcome, well done everyone, and esp. gaffy & avm for breaking the case  ;D

I also wondered abt the house-painter aspect;  but in a very modern frame of mind decided a house painter might have more easily afforded time off to go play tennis   - I knew it was wrong thinking, but...  ;D  ;D  ;D

Maybe A.W.  will end up with a photo-enhanced wiki page now too (whilst searching for him I was googling his opponents' in all sorts of 'clever' ways to find that elusive forename, and many of the opponents had wiki pages -  trivia:  the  Patrick Bowes-Lyon he once played against was a grand-uncle of the Queen  :)

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