The Reverend John Hartley was an English clergyman and tennis player who won the Wimbledon gentlemen's singles title in 1879 and 1880, and remains the only clergyman to have won the tournament. He beat the Irish champion Vere St. Leger Goold in the 1879 final and defeated Herbert Lawford in the 1880 challenge round. In 1881 he lost the shortest final on record to William Renshaw, reportedly while suffering from illness. Outside sport he was vicar of Burneston in Yorkshire for more than forty years and an honorary canon of Ripon Cathedral. He died in 1935.
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Rev. John Thorneycroft Hartley (9 January 1849-21 August 1935)
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He grew up at Tong Castle in Shropshire, which his father leased from the Earl of Bradford in 1856.
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Hartley won the 1879 Gentlemen's Singles title against Irish champion, Vere St. Leger Goold in three sets on 15 July
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retaining his title the following year, 1880, by defeating Herbert Lawford in the Challenge Round in four sets
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was a tennis player from England
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Hartley won the 1879 Gentlemen's Singles title against Irish champion, Vere St. Leger Goold in three sets on 15 July
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