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LINKS- Sports
« on: Sunday 27 November 11 19:30 GMT (UK) »
Ballooning
The Royal Aero Club- www.royalaeroclub.org/history.htm

Cricket
http://www.cricketarchive.com/
Cricket players and Officials- http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/index.html

Golf
British Golf Museum- www.britishgolfmuseum.co.uk/golf.htm

Motoring
Royal Automobile Club (RAC)- http://www.royalautomobileclub.co.uk/about-the-club

Yachting
The Association of Yachting Historians has been formed to bring together the expertise and enthusiasm of everyone who has an interest in, or is active in the pursuit of the history of yachting, yacht racing and yacht design.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060901045138/http://homepage.mac.com/fahrenheit451/YHA
The Royal Southern Yacht Club (Formed in 1837)-
www.royal-southern.co.uk/Club/Est1837OurHistory/tabid/66/Default.aspx links Checked July 2013
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Re: LINKS- Tennis Players
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 28 February 13 12:07 GMT (UK) »
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Re: LINKS- Tennis Players
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 28 February 13 12:40 GMT (UK) »
More threads about tennis players-

Edward Bennett -> Revered Edward B. Brackenbury (Limerick)
Thomas Burke, Irish lawn tennis professional and coach circa 1890 (Ireland- General)
William S. Drapes, an early Irish lawn tennis player (Carlow)
H.V.S. (Shirley) Dillon, an early Irish lawn tennis player (Dublin)
Edward Bennett -> Reverend Edward B. Brackenbury (Nottinghamshire)
Peter Aungier and Mary Aungier (Dublin)
Filling in the gaps (re early Irish lawn tennis players) (Ireland- General)
Thomas "Tom" Chaytor (1869-1951) (Dublin)
Edward Lake Williams (b. 1861) (Hertfordshire)
Unidentified early English lawn tennis players (England- General)
F.A. Fairlie & W.E. Fairlie, two Scottish tennis-playing brothers? (Ayrshire)
May Corder and J.M. Corder, from Northumberland (Northumberland)
Charles Henry Ridding (1825-1905) and Henrica Ridding (born 1868) (Gloucestershire)
Miss F.(M.) Mardall, from Cheltenham (?) (Gloucestershire)
Mrs J.B. Perrett, English tennis player from around beginning of 20th century (England- General)
D. Boadle, M. Boadle, W. Boadle - 3 English (?) tennis-playing sisters (England- General)
Mrs H. Niemeyer (U.S.)
F.L. Fassitt, an early male American lawn tennis player (U.S.)
Francis (N.) Warden, an early Anglo-Indian lawn tennis player (Other Countries)
Francis (N.) Warden, an early Anglo-Indian lawn tennis player (England- General)
Francis Woodcock Perry (b. 1866) (Westmeath)
Miss M. Brooksmith, Swizterland (and the French Riviera) (Europe)
S. Blacker Douglas, an early tennis player (Armagh)
P. von Hertz Hertenried, an early Austrian tennis player(Europe)
John Galbraith Horn, an early Scottish tennis player (Midlothian)
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Re: LINKS- Tennis Players
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 28 February 13 16:30 GMT (UK) »
Even more threads about tennis players-

C.P. Brett, brother of William Jasper Brett (Down)
Margaret Bracewell, an early tennis player from Southport (Lancashire)
Three early male lawn tennis players (from Liverpool?) (Lancashire)
H.S. Stone, an early lawn tennis player (London & Middlesex)
Three early lawn tennis players, from Leicestershire (?) (Leicestershire)
Aline Terry, US singles tennis champion in 1893 (U.S.)
Hilda Wallis and Phyllis Wallis (later Leedham-Green (Dublin)
D. Meldon and H. Abercrombie (Dublin)
Hon Cecil James Campbell and the Hon Mrs Cecil (Martha) Campbell (Ireland- General)
Some early South African female tennis players (South Africa)
The 19th century Nottinghamshire tennis-playing Snooks (Nottinghamshire)
Some early male Scottish lawn tennis players (Scotland- General)
G.E. Brown and P.B. Brown, two early lawn tennis players (Huntingdonshire)
William C. Taylor and G.H. Taylor, early tennis-playing brothers? (London & Middlesex)
Some early male Welsh lawn tennis players (1890-1910) (Wales- General)
Some early male Scottish lawn tennis players (1890-1910) (Scotland- General)
Some early male American lawn tennis players (U.S.)
Some early male Canadian lawn tennis players (Canada)
1887 Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club Closed Championships (Dublin)
Biographical information on some early lawn tennis players from New Zealand (N.Z.)
The Abercrombie family (of Cheltenham?) (Gloucestershire)
Miss D. Meldon and L. Meldon, two early Irish lawn tennis players (Dublin)
Miss N. Pope and Miss E. Pope, two early lawn tennis players (Somerset)
L. Parbury, an Russian immigrant circa 1917 (London & Middlesex)
An early Scottish lawn tennis-playing family (Scotland- General)
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Re: LINKS- Tennis Players
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 28 February 13 16:33 GMT (UK) »
Yet even more threads about tennis players-

Some early Irish lawn tennis players (Ireland- General)
James Cecil Parke (1881-1946) (Monaghan)
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