| Derbyshire Championships | |
| Type: | defunct |
| Tour: | Pre open era |
| Founded: | 1883 |
| Ended: | 1953 |
| Editions: | 60 |
| Venue: | Buxton Lawn Tennis Club |
| Location: | Buxton, Derbyshire, Great Britain |
| Surface: | Grass |
The Derbyshire Championships originally known as the Championship of Derbyshire was a men's and women's grass court tennis tournament held at the Buxton Lawn Tennis Club, Buxton, Derbyshire, Great Britain from 1883 to 1953
A tennis tournament was originally held at Buxton Garden's[1] as early as 1880.[2] By 1883 the club had attracted more players and a men's championships was staged for the first time which was won by Minden Fenwick,[2] he went on to win the New Zealand Championships three times from (1892–1894).[3] In 1884 the owners of the Buxton Gardens, the Buxton Improvements Company, decided to stage a fully open event featuring men's and women's singles, with ladies' and gentlemen's singles played under the title 'Championship of Derbyshire', and a ladies' doubles played with the imposing title of 'The All-England Ladies Doubles'.[2] The inaugural ladies' singles champion was Agnes Noon Watts.[2] This latter championship was the first of its kind, being inaugurated before Wimbledon.[2] In July 1914 the Derby and District Lawn Tennis Association was officially incorporated,[4] this organisation later became known as the Derbyshire Lawn Tennis Association who were responsible for the staging of this event.[5] The championships were not staged during World War I or World War II.[2] It remained a featured tournament in the annual tennis tours. The tournament is still held today as a closed tennis event.
Notable winners of the men's singles included Grainger Chaytor (1892–1894, 1899), Wilberforce Eaves (1904), Laurie Doherty (1909), Adrian Quist (1936) and Franjo Kukuljević (1949). Previous women's singles champions included Louisa Martin (1886), Blanche Bingley Hillyard (1906), Elizabeth Ryan (1921) and Gem Hoahing (1948). The Derbyshire Championships ran until 1953 when it was abolished.[2] The final men's singles champion was Nigel Cockburn from South Africa and the final women's singles title went to Britain's Mary Harris.
Incomplete Roll:[6]
| Year | Champions | Runners-up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1883 |  Minden Fenwick | Robert Parsons Earwaker | 6-2, 6-3 |
| 1884 |  Ernest Browne | 5-7, 6–2, 6–2, 5–7, 6–4. | |
| 1885 |  James Dwight | 6-2, 6–1, 6–3. | |
| 1886 | Percy Bateman Brown | 5-7, 6–2, 6–1, 9–7. | |
| 1887 | Tom Campion (2) | William Drumond Hamilton | 6-2, 6–3, 6–4. |
| 1888 | Tom Campion (3) | Percy Bateman Brown | 7-5, 6–4, 7–5. |
| 1889 | Percy Bateman Brown | T.G. Hill | 6-2, 6–2, 6–1. |
| 1890 | Manliffe Goodbody | Harry Sibthorpe Barlow | 6-2, 7–5, 6–3. |
| 1891 | Grainger Chaytor | George Ball-Greene | 6-1, 6–1, 6–3. |
| 1892 | Grainger Chaytor (2) | Tom Chaytor | w.o. |
| 1893 | Grainger Chaytor (3) | Alfred Ernest Crawley | 6-0, 6–2, 6–2. |
| 1894 | Grainger Chaytor (4) | Harry Sibthorpe Barlow | 6-1, 6–2, 1–0, ret. |
| 1895 | Harold Mahony | Grainger Chaytor | 6-2, 3–6, 2–6, 7–5, 6–3. |
| 1896 | David Davy | J.A. Rooke | 6-4, 6–4, 6–4. |
| 1897 | Sydney Howard Smith | George Hillyard | 6-2, 6–2, 6–2. |
| 1898 | Sydney Howard Smith (2) | Grainger Chaytor | 6-3, 6–0, 6–2. |
| 1899 | Grainger Chaytor (5) | Sydney Howard Smith | 6-3, 6–3. |
| 1900 | George Hillyard | Frank Riseley | 3-6, 6–4, 6–1, 6–4. |
| 1901 | Laurie Doherty | George Hillyard | 6-4, 7–5, 3–6, 6–2. |
| 1902 | George Hillyard (2) | George Ball-Greene | 2-6, 6–3, 6–8, 6–3, 6–2. |
| 1903 | Xenophon Casdagli | Walter Cecil Crawley | 6-3, 7–5. |
| 1904 | Wilberforce Eaves | E.V. Jones | 6-1, 6–3, 6–4. |
| 1905 | Xenophon Casdagli (2) | Ernest Charlton | 8-10, 0–6, 6–4, 6–3, 6–2. |
| 1906 | John Frederick Stokes | 8-6 6–4. | |
| 1907 | Alfred Leonard Bentley | Geoffrey Blenkinsop | 3-6, 6–2, 6–4. bi |
| 1908 | Xenophon Casdagli (3) | Arthur Wallis Myers | 6-2 4-3 ret. |
| 1909 | Roy Allen (2) | Xenophon Casdagli | 6-2, 7–5, 7–5. |
| 1910 | C. Whitehouse | 6-3, 6–3, 6–3. | |
| 1915/1918 | Not held (due to world war one) | ||
| 1919 |  Brian Norton | 6-3, 6–3, 6–3. | |
| 1920 |  Alain Gerbault | Roger Worthington | 6-3, 6–3, 6–2. |
| 1921 | Henry Vere Shirley Dillon | Cecil Campbell | 6-4, 6–4, 8–6. |
| 1922 | Edward Darcy McCrea | George Fletcher | 6-4, 6–4. |
| 1923 | Edward Darcy McCrea (2) | José Domingo | 6-3, 6–4. |
| 1924 | Charles Kingsley | Horace Keats Lester | 6-1, 6–4. |
| 1925 | Gordon Crole-Rees | George S. Fletcher | 6-2, 6–4. |
| 1926 | Charles Kingsley (2) | George S. Fletcher | 6-2, 3–6, 6–4. |
| 1927 | Gordon Crole-Rees (2) | George Golding | 2-6, 6–0, 6–1. |
| 1928 | Gordon Crole-Rees (3) | Norman Farquharson | 3-6, 9–7, 6–1. |
| 1929 | Gordon Crole-Rees (4) | Donald Greig | 5-7, 6–0, 7–5. |
| 1930 | Horace Keats Lester | Eric Conrad Peters | 7-5, 6–2. |
| 1931 | Vernon Bob Kirby | Frank Wilde | 6-2, 6–3. |
| 1932 |  James Edmett Giesen | Colin Ritchie[7] | 6-4, 5–7, 6–4. |
| 1933 | Vernon Bob Kirby (2) | Irving Wheatcroft | 6-2, 6–2. |
| 1934 | Douglas Freshwater | Jimmy Jones | 8-6, 3–6, 6–3. |
| 1935 | Jimmy Jones | George Lyttleton-Rogers | 8-6, 3–6, 6–3. |
| 1936 |  Adrian Quist | Murray Deloford | 6-2, 6–4. |
| 1937 | Cristea Caralulis | Ronald Shayes | 8-10, 10–8, ret. |
| 1938 | Murray Deloford | Jimmy Jones | 3-6, 7–5, 6–4. |
| 1939 | Don Butler |  Alejo Domingo Russell | 9-7, 3–6, 6–4. |
| 1940/1945 | Not held (due to world war two) | ||
| 1946 | Dennis Slack | C.F. Hall | 6-3, 6–2. |
| 1947 |  Khan-Iftikhar Ahmed | Constantin Tanacescu | 4-6, 9–7, 6–3. |
| 1948 | Matt Murphy | 6-1, 6–3. | |
| 1949 | George Godsell | 6-3, 6–3. | |
| 1950 | Brian Rooke | 6-0, 6–1. | |
| 1951 |  Andras Kalman | 8-6, 6–2. | |
Incomplete Roll:
| Year | Champions | Runners-up | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1884 | Agnes Noon Watts | 6-3, 6–3, 8–6. | |||
| 1885 | Louisa Martin | 6-3, 6–3. | |||
| 1886 | May Langrishe | 6-3, 6–0. | |||
| 1887 | Bertha Steedman | 6-3, 6–4. | |||
| 1888 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard (2) | May Langrishe | 7-5, 6–1. | ||
| 1889 | Louisa Martin | 5-7, 6–4, 6–3. | |||
| 1890 | Louisa Martin (2) | Mary Steedman | 6-2, 6–4. | ||
| 1891 | Beatrice Wood | 6-2, 6–2. | |||
| 1892 | Miss Vicars | 6-0, 6–1 | |||
| 1893 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard (3) | Helen Jackson | 6-0, 6–1 | ||
| 1894 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard (4) | Charlotte Cooper | 6-4, 4–6, 7–5 | ||
| 1895 | Helen Jackson (2) | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | 6-3, 3–6, 6–3 | ||
| 1896 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard (5) | Bertha Steedman | 6-4, 3–6, 7–5 | ||
| 1897 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | 6-4, 5–7, 6–4 | |||
| 1898 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | 6-2, 6–4 | |||
| 1899 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | 6-3, 6–3 | |||
| 1900 | Muriel Robb (2) | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | 7-5, 6–3 | ||
| 1901 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard (6) | Alice Simpson Pickering | 6-2, 7–5 | ||
| 1903 | Ethel Thomson | 6-2, 6–1 | |||
| 1904 | Dorothea Douglass (2) | Ethel Thomson | 6-2, 4–6, 6–3 | ||
| 1905 | Dorothea Douglass | 4-6, 6–1, 7–5 | |||
| 1906 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard (7) | Connie Meyer | 6-4, 6–3 | ||
| 1907 | Connie Meyer | 3-6, 6–3, 6–4 | |||
| 1908 | Maude Garfit | 6-2, 6–2 | |||
| 1909 | Maude Garfit (2) | Helen Aitchison | 2-6, 6–2, 6–2 | ||
| 1910 | Maude Garfit (3) | Helen Aitchison | w.o. | ||
| 1911 | Helen Aitchison | 6-3, 6–1 | |||
| 1912 | Ethel Thomson Larcombe (2) | Hilda Lane | 6-0, 6–1 | ||
| 1913 | Ethel Thomson Larcombe (3) | Winifred Longhurst | 6-2, 6–1 | ||
| 1915/1918 | Not held (due to world war one) | ||||
| 1919 | Ethel Thomson Larcombe | 3-6, 6–4, 7–5 | |||
| 1920 | Elizabeth Ryan (2) | Ethel Tanner | 6-1, 6–2 | ||
| 1921 | Elizabeth Ryan (3) | M. Wright | 6-0 6–1 | ||
| 1922 | Kathleen McKane | Irene Bowder Peacock | divided title | ||
| 1923 | Blanche Duddell Colston | 6-0, 6–4 | |||
| 1924 | Joan Fry | Kathleen McKane | 6-4, 3-4 retd | ||
| 1939/1945 | Not held (due to world war two) | ||||
| 1950 | Doreen Wedderburn | Gladys Southwell Lines | 6-0, 6–8, 6–4 | ||
| 1951 | Billie Woodgate | Gladys Southwell Lines | 6-0, 6–8, 6–4 | ||
| 1952 | Billie Woodgate (2) | Beryl Penrose | divided title | ||
| 1953 | Mary Harris | Rosemary Walsh | 7-5, 5–7, 6–2 | ||
| Most titles | Grainger Chaytor | 4 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gordon Crole-Rees | |||
| Most consecutive titles< | -- FOR 3 YEARS OR LESS USE FORMAT (year_1, year_2, year_3) --> | Grainger Chaytor | 4 |
| Most titles | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | 7 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most consecutive finals< | -- FOR 3 YEARS OR LESS USE FORMAT (year_1, year_2, year_3) --> | Ethel Thomson Larcombe | 3 |
| Elizabeth Ryan | |||