Gladys Shirley Eastlake Smith (14 August 1883 – 18 September 1941), also known as Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith and Gladys Lamplough (after her marriage), was a British

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player.Lewisham Herald, Lewisham's Olympic Heroes
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gold medal at the

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in London.

Early life

Gladys Shirley Eastlake Smith was born in Sydenham, Lewisham, Kent on 14 August 1883, daughter of

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and Lizzie, daughter of George P. Cooper. Her father's aunt was the author and literary critic Elizabeth, Lady Eastlake. Her father, a manufacturing company manager and former insurance clerk, had played football for England in 1876.The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake, ed. Julie Sheldon, Liverpool University Press, 2009, pp. 23, 73, 403, 492

Tennis career

She won the All England covered mixed doubles in 1905 with

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. She won the

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in 1906, 1907 and 1908, won the London Covered Court Championships ladies singles in October 1906 and April 1907, and reached the final in October 1907. She won the All England covered mixed doubles a second time in 1908 with

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. The same year, she won the Women's indoor singles at the Olympic Games in London. She beat fellow Briton Violet Pinkney 7–5, 7–5 in the quarter-finals; Swede

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6–4, 6–4 in the semi-finals; and fellow Briton

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6–2, 4–6, 6–0 in the final. Two days after winning the Olympic final, she married Wharram Henry Lamplough, a physician and surgeon. She reached the semi-finals in the ladies singles at Wimbledon, under her married name, in 1908 and 1910, and won the

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ladies singles title at

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in 1910. She won the "Married Doubles" in 1913 with her husband. She last competed in the ladies singles at Wimbledon in 1921.

References

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in ''Lawn Tennis for Ladies'', by Mrs. Lambert Chambers, 1910, from

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