1887 Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club Closed Championships

[newmark401]

I'm looking for basic biographical information on some of the players who took part in the men's singles event at the Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club Closed Championship held in Dublin in July 1887. I have just the initials of the players' first name(s) and their family names. Here they are:

W.R. Clarke
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G.C. de Rinzy
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B.R. Le Fanu
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R. Maunsell
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T.B. Moffatt
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R.E. Shaw
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T.A. Tombe
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I'm basically looking for the date and place of birth, and the date and place of birth for the players in question.

Any help would be appreciated.

Mark

[shanew147]

T.A. Tombe
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...

probable match for one of them on the 1901 census ....

   Tombe/Reid/Pogue household, Rosanna Lower

born Co. Wicklow in about 1857.


Shane

[newmark401]

Thanks, Shane. It's a pity the Irish censuses are so poor compared with the English ones.

Mark

[shanew147]

a couple of possible matches, or maybe relations, from Thom's 1894 :

G.C. de Rinzy
  possible match, or relation
   G.A.F. De Rinzy major-gen. Willbrook house, Rathfarnham
   (street listing has G.A.F. index has A.F.)

B.R. Le Fanu
  closest match is this guy - maybe 'Bill' in your listing ?
  William R. LeFanu, esq. Summerhill, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow

R. Maunsell
2 Lwr. Merrion St. (sharing) - Richard E. Maunsell - Land agent
   res. 25 Ailesbury Rd & 39 Victoria St. S.W

T.B. Moffatt
  36 Hardwicke st., Thos. Bethune Moffatt, B.A. solicitor

R.E. Shaw
  Robert E. Shaw esq. 6 Wellington road

[newmark401]

Hi, Shane,

Thanks for your help.

B.R. Lefanu appears to be this person: Brinsley Rankine Le Fanu, b. 10 August 1862, d. 5 February 1945. But I don't know where he was born or where he died.

Mark

[newmark401]

I see that another early tennis player, Henry Evelyn Tombe, was born in County Wicklow in 1851. I imagine that he was the/a younger brother of Thomas Arembery Tombe.

Mark

[newmark401]

The "ancestry.com" website has some information on a George (C.) de Rinzy, here:

http://records.ancestry.com/George_De_Rinzy_records.ashx?pid=130901444

[shanew147]

Hi, Shane,

Thanks for your help.

B.R. Lefanu appears to be this person: Brinsley Rankine Le Fanu, b. 10 August 1862, d. 5 February 1945. But I don't know where he was born or where he died.

Mark

this looks like his death in Dublin South... born a little too early for civil records...

  Name: Brinsley Renkive Le Fanu
  Registration district:   Dublin South
  Event type: Death
  Quarter and year:   Jan - Mar 1945
  Age : 82  (est. year of birth 1863)
  volume :   2 Page: 339

I think this may be him mistranscribed slightly in 1901...

  De Fann/Cunningham household, Magheramurphy Co. Down
 
born Co. Wicklow


S.

[newmark401]

Thanks, Shane. I think that Thomas Bethune Moffatt definitely studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and was probably a brother of Charles Bethune Moffatt, who also studied there.

Mark