Edward Gordon
Cleather
Male
England
1872-09-12
Cap Gare, Sardinia, Italy
1967-02-26
Hackney, London, England
Edward Gordon Cleather was Professor of Singing at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, before moving to London, and later occupied the same position at the Guildhall School of Music in London. At the beginning of the twentieth century he was a renowned concert singer and, in 1907, appeared in the first English-language production of Franz Lehár’s operetta The Merry Widow (Die Lustige Witwe) at Daly’s Theatre in London’s West End. Edward Gordon Cleather was also the father of the renowned lawn tennis administrator Norah Gordon Cleather (1901-69), who notably served as Acting Secretary at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon, during World War Two.
1896 - 1913
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13
6
1908 - Aldeburgh Open (Amateur)
Quarterfinals
A. Félix Poulin 1 *
Edward Gordon Cleather
6-3
6-0
Round 1
F.H. Bryant 1 *
Edward Gordon Cleather
6-4
6-3
3-6
6-3
Round 2
Clarence Phelps Dodge 1 *
Edward Gordon Cleather
6-2
6-0
Round 2
Frank Herbert Jarvis 1 *
Edward Gordon Cleather
6-1
3-6
6-3
Final
Edward Gordon Cleather 1 *
Charles Richard Longe
6-1
6-2
Round 2
David Grainger Chaytor 1 *
Edward Gordon Cleather
6-1
6-1
Round 1
Edward Gordon Cleather 1 *
John Benjamin Story
w.o.
Round 2
Edward Gordon Cleather 1 *
William Henry Roper
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Edward Gordon Cleather 1 *
F. Darley
6-2
3-6
8-6
6-1
Semifinals
George Ball Greene 1 *
Edward Gordon Cleather
6-2
6-0
6-4
Round 1
Edward Gordon Cleather 1 *
Robert Hough
2-6
6-1
6-2
Quarterfinals
Edward Gordon Cleather 1 *
Arthur Vickermann Priestley
w.o.
Semifinals
Henry James Wilson Fosbery 1 *
Edward Gordon Cleather
4-6
6-1
6-2