Arthur Thomas Myers
Country (sports) | United Kingdom |
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Born | Keswick, Cumberland | 16 April 1851
Died | 10 January 1894 Marylebone, London | (aged 42)
Singles | |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Wimbledon | QF (1878) |
Arthur Thomas Myers (16 April 1851 – 10 January 1894) was a British physician and sportsman. As a
Wimbledon Championships and also played first-class cricket
.
While studying at
Cambridge Apostle
.
In 1878 he competed in his first Wimbledon and made it into the quarter-finals, before being defeated in straight sets by eventual champion Frank Hadow. The following year he won his first two matches and was eliminated in the third round, by Irishman C. D. Barry.[2]
Myers suffered from epilepsy and is believed to have taken his own life in 1894.[3] John Hughlings Jackson published a study of his case.[4]
He was the brother of scholar
Frederic William Henry Myers and poet Ernest Myers
.
Notes
- ^ "Cambridge University v Marylebone Cricket Club". CricketArchive.
- ^ "Arthur Thomas Myers". Tennis Archives.
- British Medical Journal. 27 January 1894.
- PMID 6999129.
References
- "Myers, Arthur Thomas". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40751. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)