Tancred Disraeli
Cummins
Male
England
1864-02-15
Liverpool, Lancashire, England
1950-12-27
Llandudno Caernarvonshire, Wales
Tancred Disraeli Cummins was born in Liverpool in February 1864, the son of Charles Cummins, a businessman and later a journalist, and Mary Cummins (née Firth). The choice of the lawn tennis player’s name seems to have been influenced by the novel Tancred, or The New Crusade, first published in 1847, by the author and politician Benjamin Disraeli, who twice served as prime minister of the United Kingdom. Tancred Cummins spent much of his adult life living in Wales, where he designed and owned at least one golf course.
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From: The North Wales Weekly News, 27 December 1950:
Obituary – Former tennis champion
Mr Tancred Disraeli Cummins, who died at Llandudno on Wednesday, aged 87, was a Lancashire county lawn tennis player in the eighties of the last century, and in 1893 won the North Wales Challenge Cup (covered courts) at Llandudno, going on to win the trophy outright. Mr Cummins was a spectator at this year’s revival of the covered court championships at Craigside.
He designed the North Wales Golf Club course in 1893 and the Addington Court course, of which he was also a former owner. As a young man he played rugby for the Manchester Club. Mr Cummins, who resided at “Home Green”, Church Walks, Llandudno, leaves one son, four daughters and eight grandchildren.
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North Wales Golf Club
In 1894, Llandudno did not have a golf club but then along came Tancred Disraeli Cummins. Tancred came to Llandudno not for golf, but tennis, when in 1893 he played in the very first match at the newly opened Craigside Covered Tennis Courts. He was a prodigious sportsman but his first love was golf. He acquired the lease from the Town Improvement Commissioners, a forerunner of Llandudno Urban District Council, to what was then a windswept 6-hole course and turned it into an 18-hole course which opened in August 1894.
It seems that in the early years some residents of Llandudno had little regard for Tancred’s golf course. On one occasion Tancred found cricketers had set up a wicket on the fairway leading to the second hole and was even more perturbed to find a set of goal posts had been erected and a football match being contested.
But my favourite incident is told in Tancred’s own words. He was playing a round with a good friend, when: “On the 18th we found a picnic party enjoying a hearty spread. On the green was a white cloth with a goodly array of crockery and many eatables. The flagstaff had been converted into a hat and coat stand; being of iron it stood the weight of a formidable array of clothing.
“We looked down upon the party with mixed feelings, when a lady said: ‘I wonder if the little white ball which dropped amongst us belongs to these gentlemen?’ Upon which a small boy took my ball out of his pocket and handed it to me. My opponent, picking up his ball out of the bunker, said: ‘I think we had better call this hole a half’.”
1885 - 1906
3
71
42
1895 - Trefriw (Amateur)
1894 - Trefriw (Amateur)
1889 - Keswick (Amateur)
Round 2
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
Charles Leslie T. Molecey
7-5
6-3
Quarterfinals
R.F.J. Harrison 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-2
6-2
Round 1
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
H.I. Morton
6-2
6-4
Round 2
Charles Gladstone Allen 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-2
6-3
Round 1
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
Sir Edward Tootal Broadhurst
7-5
9-11
6-2
Quarterfinals
Robert Hough 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
?
Challenge Round
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
Reverend Charles James Latham
6-3
6-3
1-6
6-3
Round 1
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
George Caridia
6-3
8-10
7-5
Round 2
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
A.P. Ford
6-2
6-0
Quarterfinals
Edward Roy (Roy) Allen 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-2
0-6
6-2
Quarterfinals
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
Percy Pyne Caldecott-Smith
6-4
6-1
Semifinals
George Miéville Simond 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-1
6-4
Challenge Round
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
William Sidney Nelson Heard
6-1
2-6
3-6
6-4
6-4
Round 2
Charles Gladstone Allen 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-1
6-1
6-1
Final
James Herbert Crispe 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-2
6-4
6-2
Round 2
G.F. Goodman 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-8
6-2
6-0
Round 2
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
John Flavelle
7-5
7-5
Quarterfinals
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
G.A. Bolton
6-2
6-2
Semifinals
David Grainger Chaytor 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-4
6-2
6-4
Round 1
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
William Rimington Glazebrook
w.o.
Round 2
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
Alfred Henry Betham
6-4
6-2
Round 3
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
A.E. Parkinson
6-3
6-1
Quarterfinals
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
Edward Carey
3-6
6-4
6-1
Semifinals
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
A.E. Dixon
6-1
6-4
Final
Arnold Harrop Wolff 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-2
6-1
9-7
Round 1
Andrew Laurie Macfie 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
5-7
6-3
6-2
6-1
Round 1
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
bye
Quarterfinals
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
David Davy
5-7
6-4
6-4
Semifinals
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
Frederick T. Bradbury
6-2
6-3
Final
Dr Arthur Benjamin Carvosso 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
8-6
6-1
6-1
Round 1
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
John Charles Bythell
6-4
3-6
6-3
Quarterfinals
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
Charles Lacy Sweet
7-5
ret.
Semifinals
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
C. Tulloch
6-1
6-2
Final
James Herbert Crispe 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-4
7-5
6-0
Round 2
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
W.C. Coates
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Albert Francis (Frank) Stoddart 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-3
6-0
8-6
Round 2
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
Charles Gladstone Allen
6-4
2-6
6-3
Round 3
William Howard 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
8-6
9-7
Round 2
Harold (Harry) Bacon 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-2
6-3
Round 1
Norman Melland 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-1
6-8
6-2
7-5
Round 1
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
David Davy
5-7
6-2
6-3
Round 2
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
W. MacGregor
6-1
6-4
Quarterfinals
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
Wilfred Flockton Rodgers
6-4
6-2
Semifinals
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
John Parker Marsh
6-1
6-4
Final
Herbert Wilberforce 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-2
6-4
6-4
Final
Manliffe Francis Goodbody 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-2
6-8
6-1
6-2
Round 2
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
E. Paul
6-4
2-6
6-3
Quarterfinals
George Ball Greene 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
3-6
6-4
6-1
6-1
Round 1
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
Arnold Wyersdale Blake
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
Rodmond Vernon Beach
10-8
6-1
ret.
Final
Harry Sibthorpe Barlow 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
7-5
6-3
6-2
Round 1
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
George Frederick Padley
6-3
6-0
Quarterfinals
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
Wilfred Flockton Rodgers
6-1
6-3
Semifinals
Charles William Wade 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
7-5
6-2
Round 1
Percy Bateman Brown 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
4-6
6-3
7-5
Round 1
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
W. Bell
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
Harold King
5-6
6-2
6-3
Semifinals
Arnold Harrop Wolff 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
2-6
6-5
6-3
Round 1
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
A.A. Slack
6-2
6-1
Quarterfinals
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
G.C. Baker
6-4
6-1
Semifinals
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
E. Paul
6-2
6-2
Final
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
C.J. Chippendale
?
Round 1
Theodore Coventry 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-3
6-3
Round 1
Arthur John Stanley 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-3
6-5
Round 2
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
F.E.T. Jones
6-3
6-0
Round 3
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
Arthur Burgess Crosby
6-0
6-5
Quarterfinals
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
Sir William John Ferguson Davie
3-6
6-4
6-3
Semifinals
Tancred Disraeli Cummins 1 *
Harold Ennis Gardner
6-3
6-1
Final
Rev. Guy Seymour Back 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-2
6-3
6-3
Round 1
Jacob Gaitskell Brown 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-2
6-1
6-1
Round 2
Ernest Wool Lewis 1 *
Tancred Disraeli Cummins
6-3
6-2
6-1