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| Gold | 1908 London | Doubles |
Commander George Whiteside Hillyard, Royal Navy, (6 February 1864 – 24 March 1943) was a male tennis player from the United Kingdom.
Hillyard was born in Hanwell, Middlesex. He was a naval cadet aboard the HMS Bacchante in 1881.
He was also one of the foremost men's players on the international tennis circuit between 1886 and 1914. At the 1908 London Olympics he won the gold medal in men's doubles with Reginald Doherty. From 1907 to 1925, he was secretary of the All England Lawn Tennis Club and instrumental in the construction of Centre Court at Wimbledon.
Hillyard also played first-class cricket for Middlesex and Leicestershire from 1886 to 1896. He also excelled at golf, swimming, pigeon-shooting and billiards.
He married Blanche Bingley, a six-time Wimbledon singles champion, on 13 July 1887 in Greenford, Middlesex. The couple lived in Thorpe Satchville, Leicestershire between 1895 and 1925, and then moved to Bramfold, Pulborough, Sussex, where Hillyard died on Wednesday, 24 March 1943.
The couple had at least two children, Jack and Marjorie.
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