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General First nameHenry Samuel (Harry)
LastnameLewis-Barclay
GenderMale
CountryAustralia
Date of birth1892-11-07
Place of birthBeaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia
Date of death1956-04-20
Place of deathBarnet, Hertfordshire, England


About

Adapted from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lewis-Barclay

Harry Samuel Lewis Barclay was an Australian-born army officer and sportsman who played first-class cricket and was a quarter-finalist in the men’s singles event at the Wimbledon Championships in 1925.

Lewis-Barclay took part in a lawn tennis tournament for the first time in 1914, at the Metropolitan Cricket Club (MCC’s) autumn tournament in Melbourne in his native Australia. In 1915, he won the men’s singles title at the Tasmanian Championships in Hobart and, with William Sheehan, the men’s doubles title at the same tournament. In 1919, Lewis-Barclay was a finalist at the tournament held in Baroda, India. In 1920 he competed on the French Riviera, where he won the men’s singles event at the prestigious Cannes Championships, held at the Hotel Beau Site, Cannes.

In 1922, he won the men’s singles title at the Canford tournament held in Hampstead, London. The same year, he won the same event at the tournament held in spring on the hard (clay) courts at the Phyllis Court Club in London. He was also a finalist at the North London Championships (aka the Gipsy tournament) in Stamford Hill, London, and at the All India Championships, held in Allahabad in February 1922. In 1925, he was a losing singles finalist at the Highbury tournament in London and also at the Kent Championships in Beckenham.

Lewis-Barclay competed at the Wimbledon Championships five times: in 1922, 1925, 1929, 1930 and 1931. He made the third round of the men’s singles event in 1922, but had his best performance in 1925, when he beat Theodore Mavrogordato, Monty Temple, Percival Davson and Henry Mayes to make the quarter-finals, where he lost to the eventual runner-up, Jean Borotra.

In cricket, Lewis-Barclay made his first-class debut on 13 November 1926, for Southern Punjab, against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) from England. The match was played in Lahore and Lewis-Barclay opened the bowling for Southern Punjab, claiming figures of 3-75, which included the wicket of the MCC captain Arthur Gilligan.

After amassing 285 runs in the first innings, the MCC dismissed Southern Punjab for just 89 and enforced the follow-on. Southern Punjab were eight wickets down and still trailing the MCC when Lewis-Barclay came to the crease in the second innings. He made 14 not out and managed to save the match with number 11 Barkat Ali.

On 18 November 1926, Lewis-Barclay made another first-class appearance against the MCC in Lahore, this time for Northern India. He had Test player Maurice Tate caught and bowled and again dismissed Gilligan, to finish with figures of 2-68 in the MCC’s only innings. His other two first-class matches were played in 1928, for the British Army against the Royal Air Force cricket team at Kennington Oval, and the Royal Navy cricket team at Lords, both in London.

Having served as a captain in the 40th Battalion (Australia) during the First World War, Lewis-Barclay transferred to the Indian Army in occupied India in 1917 and to the British Army’s Royal Corps of Signals in 1927. He retired, as a lieutenant-colonel, in 1946.

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Archive statistics Career1914 - 1931
Tournament wins5
Matches74
Match wins47


Tournament wins 1925 - London Hard Courts (Amateur)
1922 - Canforde (Amateur)
1920 - Cannes Championships (Open)
1920 - Henley Hard Courts Spring Meeting (Amateur)
1915 - Tasmanian Championships (Amateur)


Tournaments Wimbledon - 1931 Wimbledon - 1930 Wimbledon - 1929 Wimbledon - 1928 Wimbledon - 1925 British Hard Court Championships - 1925 Kent Championships - 1925 London Hard Courts - 1925 Highbury - 1925 Magdalen Park - 1925 Wimbledon - 1922 Dulwich - 1922 All India Championships - 1922 Gipsy - 1922 British Covered Court Championships - 1922 Henley Hard Courts Spring Meeting - 1922 Canforde - 1922 Gallery Tournament Covered Courts - 1922 Cannes Championships - 1920 Côte d'Azur Championships - 1920 Riviera Championships - 1920 South of France Championships - 1920 Cannes Métropole - 1920 Roehampton Grass Courts - 1920 Surrey Hard Court Championships - 1920 Henley Hard Courts Spring Meeting - 1920 Hendon Spring - 1920 Baroda - 1919 Tasmanian Championships - 1916 Tasmanian Championships - 1915 Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament - 1915 Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament - 1914