James Baldwin | |
Birth Date: | 25 August 1858 |
Birth Place: | Aitken's Gap Victoria, Australia |
Death Date: | 17 July 1934 (age 78)[1] |
Death Place: | Bath, Somersetshire, England |
Turnedpro: | 1884 (amateur tour) |
Retired: | 1891 |
Singlesrecord: | [2] |
Singlestitles: | 16 |
Wimbledonresult: | 2R (1889) |
James Baldwin (25 August 1858 – 21 July 1934),[3] was British tennis player who competed at the Wimbledon Championships between 1889 and 1890.[4] He was active from 1884 to 1891 and won 16 career singles titles.[2]
Jamest was born Aitken's Gap Victoria, Australia on 25 August 1858.[5] He played and won his first tournament at the Hayesland LTC Championship in Bath in 1884.[2] He won the Tenby Open two times (1885–1886). He played and won his final singles title and tournament at the Burton-on-Trent Open in 1891.[2]
James Baldwin married Adelaide Dunbar Yescombe, the daughter of the late Reverend Morris Yescombe and Mrs Yescombe [née Mary Jane Crosbie] in 1880 they had two sons and one daughter.[6]