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General First nameHope M.
LastnameCrisp
GenderMale
CountryEngland
Date of birth1884-02-06
Place of birthHighgate, Middlsex, England
Date of death1950-03-25
Place of deathRoehampton, London, England


About

Hope Crisp was born in London in February 1884. He was the son of William Fitzjohn Crisp (1846-1924) and Jane Euphemia Crisp (née Bell; 1849-1910). William F. Crisp was an architect and civil engineer, who for several years worked in the Admiralty in London. Hope Crisp married Violet Forbes Lacy Thompson (1890-1974) in Tynemouth, Northumberland, in 1915. They had two daughters together: Muriel (b. 1915) and Eileen (b. 1919).

Hope Crisp attended Cambridge University, which he represented at lawn tennis in the annual Varsity matches against Oxford University. An all-round athlete, he also represented Cambridge at football. In 1913, he became the first person to be awarded a “Full Blue” at the university. Together with Agnes Tuckey (née Daniell), Hope M. Crisp notably won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 1913, the first year in which the event had official status at The Championships.

When World War One broke out, Crisp joined the Honourable Artillery Company of the British Army and was given a commission in the 3rd Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment. He had reached the rank of Second Lieutenant when in April 1915 he was seriously injured during fighting at Hill 60 near Ypres in Belgium. His right leg was subsequently amputated.

After the war Crisp worked as a Regional Awards Officer in the Ministry of Pensions in London. He also continued to play lawn tennis, albeit mainly in men’s doubles and mixed doubles, and with much less success than before the war. (He had been successfully fitted with a prosthesis.) He was awarded an O.B.E. in 1923. A debilitating stroke, suffered in his office in August 1948, left him paralysed and unable to speak. He died in London in March 1950 at the age of 66.

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Archive statistics Career1910 - 1914
Tournament wins2
Matches52
Match wins34


Tournament wins 1913 - Cannes Beau Site New Year Meeting (Amateur)
1913 - Hyères (Amateur)


Tournaments Wimbledon - 1914 Wimbledon - 1913 Cannes Championships - 1913 Irish Championships - 1913 Cannes Beau Site New Year Meeting - 1913 Cannes Métropole - 1913 Hyères - 1913 South of England Championships - 1913 Coupe de Noel - 1912 Queens Club Tournament - 1912 South of England Championships - 1912 Lausanne Autumn Meeting - 1912 Montreux Territet - 1912 Wimbledon - 1911 South of England Championships - 1911 North of England Championships - 1910 Carlisle - 1910 Berkshire Championships - 1910 Worthing - 1910 Fulham - 1910