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Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith
Eastlake-Smith, prior to 1910
Born

Gladys Shirley Eastlake Smith


(1883-08-14)14 August 1883
Died18 September 1941(1941-09-18) (aged 58)
NationalityBritish
OccupationTennis player
Known forOlympic Gold Medalist
SpouseWharram Henry Lamplough
Olympic medal record
Tennis
Gold medal – first place 1908 London Women's singles-indoors

Gladys Shirley Eastlake Smith (14 August 1883 – 18 September 1941), also known as Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith and Gladys Lamplough (after her marriage), was a British tennis player.[1] She won an Olympic gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.[2][3]

Early life

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Gladys Shirley Eastlake Smith was born in Sydenham, Lewisham, Kent on 14 August 1883, daughter of Charles Eastlake Smith and Lizzie, daughter of George P. Cooper. Her father's aunt was the author and literary critic Elizabeth, Lady Eastlake.[1] Her father, a manufacturing company manager and former insurance clerk, had played football for England in 1876.[4][5][6]

Tennis career

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She won the All England covered mixed doubles in 1905 with Reginald Doherty. She won the Monte Carlo Championships in 1906, 1907 and 1908, won the London Covered Court Championships ladies singles in October 1906 and April 1907, and reached the final in October 1907. She won the All England covered mixed doubles a second time in 1908 with Anthony Wilding. The same year, she won the Women's indoor singles at the Olympic Games in London. She beat fellow Briton Violet Pinkney 7–5, 7–5 in the quarter-finals; Swede Elsa Wallenberg 6–4, 6–4 in the semi-finals; and fellow Briton Alice Greene 6–2, 4–6, 6–0 in the final.

Two days after winning the Olympic final, she married Wharram Henry Lamplough, a physician and surgeon.[7] She reached the semi-finals in the ladies singles at Wimbledon, under her married name, in 1908 and 1910, and won the London Championships ladies singles title at Queen's Club in 1910. She won the "Married Doubles" in 1913 with her husband. She last competed in the ladies singles at Wimbledon in 1921.

References

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  • ^ "Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  • ^ "Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith". Olympedia. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  • ^ Charles Eastlake Smith
  • ^ http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamPlyrsBios/PlayersS/BioSmithCE.html
  • ^ The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake, ed. Julie Sheldon, Liverpool University Press, 2009, pp. 23, 73, 403, 492
  • ^ http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamPlyrsBios/PlayersS/BioSmithCE.html
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