Lottie Dod

Lottie Dod was an English multi-sport athlete, best known as a tennis player, who won the Wimbledon ladies' singles championship five times, the first in 1887 at the age of fifteen, which makes her the youngest ladies' singles champion. She also won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship, played twice for the England women's national field hockey team, which she helped to found, and won a silver medal in archery at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Born in Bebington, Cheshire, in 1871 into a wealthy cotton trading family, she is named by the Guinness Book of Records, together with Babe Zaharias, as the most versatile female athlete of all time. She died in 1960.