Walter Clopton Wingfield

Major Walter Clopton Wingfield MVO (16 October 1833 – 18 April 1912) was a British army officer who was one of the pioneers of lawn tennis. Inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1997, an example of the original equipment for the sport and a bust of Wingfield himself can be seen at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum.

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