Harold Mahony

Harold Segerson Mahony (1867 to 1905) was a Scottish-born Irish tennis player who won the singles title at the Wimbledon Championships in 1896, beating Wilfred Baddeley in five sets. His family was Irish and he lived mostly at Dromore Castle in County Kerry. He also won the British Covered Court Championships in 1893 and 1894, the Irish Championships and the German Championships in 1898, and at the 1900 Paris Olympics took silver in men's singles and mixed doubles and bronze in doubles. A tall player with a formidable backhand, he died in a bicycling accident near Caragh Lake in 1905 at the age of thirty-eight.