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John Hartley

1849 - 1935

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Rev. John Thorneycroft Hartley (9 January 1849 – 21 August 1935) was a tennis player from England, and the only clergyman to win Wimbledon. Hartley won the 1879 Gentlemen's Singles title against Irish champion, Vere St. Leger Goold in three sets on 15 July, retaining his title the following year, 1880, by defeating Herbert Lawford in the Challenge Round in four sets. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Hartley is the 238th most popular tennis player (down from 133rd in 2019), the 3,787th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,019th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Tennis Player.

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, John Hartley ranks 238 out of 1,569. Before him are Bill Johnston, Seiichiro Kashio, Hendrik Timmer, Virginia Wade, Tony Trabert, and Emilio Sánchez. After him are Marin Čilić, Arthur Norris, Toni Nadal, Dorothy Holman, Dennis Ralston, and Svetlana Kuznetsova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, John Hartley ranks 90. Before him are Ruy Barbosa, Fernand de Langle de Cary, Alfhild Agrell, José Manuel Pando, Panas Myrny, and William Knox D'Arcy. After him are Rafael Reyes, George Washington Williams, Joaquim Nabuco, Princess Marie of Hanover, Alfred Kleiner, and Eugen Huber. Among people deceased in 1935, John Hartley ranks 122. Before him are Harald Sohlberg, Milman Parry, Alfred Roller, Herbert Giles, Vladimir Gilyarovsky, and Francisco Cepeda. After him are Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Aimé Haegeman, Johan Ramstedt, Gerhard Louis De Geer, Stanley G. Weinbaum, and Pieter Cort van der Linden.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Hartley ranks 3,788 out of 8,785. Before him are Stephen Hendry (1969), Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899), Algernon Sidney (1623), Jack Straw (1946), Richard Madden (1986), and Jack Goody (1919). After him are Seán Lester (1888), William Frederick Denning (1848), Ashley Williams (1984), Willie Waddell (1921), Taylor Caldwell (1900), and Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726).

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among tennis players born in United Kingdom, John Hartley ranks 28. Before him are Wilfred Baddeley (1872), Winifred McNair (1877), Harold Mahony (1867), Charles Winslow (1888), Ethel Thomson Larcombe (1879), and Virginia Wade (1945). After him are Dorothy Holman (1883), Muriel Robb (1878), May Sutton (1886), Charles P. Dixon (1873), Dorothy Shepherd-Barron (1897), and Edith Hannam (1878).

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