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BACKTRACK - The vicar of Wimbledon.
(From The Northern Echo)
Byline: Mike Amos
Oh enter then his gates with praise; Approach with joy his courts unto?.
TO begin at the conclusion, the answer to Tuesday?s question was that John Hartley, Wimbledon winner in 1879 and 1880, was a Church of England priest ? for 45 years vicar of Burneston, near Bedale.
Hartley is probably the only men?s singles winner to be what?s still called a clerk in holy orders; Vere St Leger Gould, whom he beat in 1879, is probably the only finalist to have been convicted of murder ? though several, metaphorically at least, appear to have got away with it.
Both are extraordinary stories and we shall return to them shortly. They are topped, however, by the sort of coincidence about which jobbing journalists can only dream.
All these years later, all those ructions and all those rallies, a weekend back in that small North Yo rkshire village on July 26-27 will celebrate the memory of Canon Hartley and the restoration of the courts that so manifestly he approached with joy.
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