Violet Millicent Pinckney (11 March 1871 – 13 March 1955) was an English

tennis player Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

. Pinckney was born at

Alderbury Alderbury is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, in the south of the county around southeast of Salisbury. The parish includes the village of Whaddon, which is adjacent to Alderbury, and the hamlet of Shute End. The River Avon f ...

Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated to Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It borders Gloucestershire to the north, Oxfordshire to the north-east, Berkshire to the east, Hampshire to the south-east, Dorset to the south, and Somerset to ...

, in 1871 to

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William Pinckney and his wife ''Frances Charlotte Everett''. In 1903 she won the German Championships. She took part in the

1908 Summer Olympics The 1908 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the IV Olympiad and also known as London 1908) were an international multi-sport event held in London, England, from 27 April to 31 October 1908. The 1908 Games were originally schedu ...

, but lost in the initial round to Gladys Eastlake-Smith. In 1907 and 1908 she won the ''London Championships''. She competed in 12 editions of the

Wimbledon Championships The Wimbledon Championships, commonly called Wimbledon, is a tennis tournament organised by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in collaboration with the Lawn Tennis Association annually in Wimbledon, London. It is chronologically the ...

between 1903 and 1925. Her best result in the singles event was reaching the quarterfinal in 1906, 1908 and 1920 while in doubles she reached the semifinal in 1914 partnering

Marguerite Broquedis Marguerite Marie Broquedis (; married names Billout-Bordes; 17 April 1893 – 23 April 1983) was a French tennis player. In major tournaments she won the singles title at the 1912 World Hard Court Championships – Women's singles, 1912 World Ha ...

. Pinckney died at

New Forest The New Forest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England, covering southwest Hampshire and southeast Wiltshire. It was proclaimed a royal forest by William the Conqueror, featu ...

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in March 1955.

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* 1871 births 1955 deaths Tennis players at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic tennis players for Great Britain English female tennis players British female tennis players Tennis players from Wiltshire 20th-century English sportswomen {{UK-tennis-bio-stub