Toler Garvey | |
Fullname: | Toler Roberts Garvey |
Birth Date: | 11 February 1865 [1] |
Birth Place: | Parsonstown (modern Birr, County Offaly), Ireland |
Death Place: | Birr, County Offaly, Ireland |
Turnedpro: | 1884 (amateur tour) |
Retired: | 1896 |
Wimbledonresult: | SF (1886) |
Toler Roberts Garvey (1865–1946) was an Irish tennis player who played at Wimbledon in 1886, where he beat William Taylor before losing to Herbert Lawford in the semifinals.[2] Garvey won several Irish tournaments including the King’s County and Ormonde Tournament three times (1886, 1894, 1896) (the 1890s was the most successful period in history for Irish tennis). Garvey was also a Justice of the Peace.[3]