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Tennis Interest. A group of 1890's to 1920's Tennis prize medallions presented to Sir Herbert William Wrangham Wilberforce comprising an 1890 All England Lawn Tennis Association Inter-Club Challenge Cup gold prize medallion, white metal Jubilee Lawn Tennis Championships Wimbledon 1877-1926 cased and named medallion, cased and named L.T.A. bronze Commemoration of the Jubilee of the Lawn Tennis Championships 1926, a cased German silver baptism medallion and a boxed 1910-1935 commemorative medallion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Wilberforce

Sir Herbert William Wrangham Wilberforce (8 February 1864 28 March 1941) was a British male tennis player. He was vice-president of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club from 1911 to 1921 and served as its president from 1921 to 1936.[3] In 1887, he and Patrick Bowes-Lyon won the doubles in Wimbledon.
Sir Herbert William Wrangham Wilberforce (8 February 1864 28 March 1941) was a tennis player and vice-president of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club from 1911 to 1921 and served as its president from 1921 to 1936. In 1887, he and Patrick Bowes-Lyon won the doubles in Wimbledon.

In 1888 they were unable to defend their title when they were beaten in the Challenge Round by Ernest and William Renshaw. His best singles performance at Wimbledon came in 1886 when he reached the semi-final of the All Comers tournament in which he lost in five sets to compatriot Ernest Lewis. He also reached the quarter-finals of the singles in 1882, 1883 and 1888.

Herbert was a brother of physicist Lionel, son of judge Edward, grandson of archdeacon Robert and great-grandson of abolitionist William Wilberforce. He later served as president and chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis Club. He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1931 New Year Honours. Author of The All England Series: Lawn Tennis: With A Chapter For Ladies, 1897.

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2nd Oct 23 at 9:30am BST