General Alfred Wallace
Dunlop
Male
Australia
1875-01-12
Christchurch, New Zealand
1933-04-07
Kew, Melbourne, Australia


About

From Studley Park Heritage: http://www.studleypark.net/the-dunlop-family.htm

Alfred Wallace Dunlop was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1875. A noted tennis player, he won his first important championship in New Zealand for the men’s singles (1900-01). Perhaps this watershed match was a happy inspiration for naming his house Ruapaki (Maori for “clap twice”). In 1911, he won the men’s doubles with Norman Brookes at Hagley Park in Christchurch for the Australasian Davis Cup team against the USA.

Prior to the mid-1950s, the west side of Studley Avenue between Studley Park Road and Stawell Street consisted of only three properties: Alfred Dunlop’s house at No. 9, a house at No. 5 and the neo-Georgian brick house still standing at No. 15 constructed for Alfred’s second son, Bruce Dunlop, in 1956, complete with a tennis court. A house for the third Dunlop son (Alfred Guy) was constructed around the corner in Studley Park Road, the tennis court next to which is visible in aerial photos from the time. This house is also still standing at what is now No. 2 Dunlop Avenue.

Alfred Dunlop died in 1933 at the age of 58. In his eulogy, the distinguished tennis champion and his fellow Davis Cup team member, Sir Norman Brookes, praised Dunlop as being one of the finest doubles players the world had produced. The funeral procession was more than a mile long.

The land to the west of Ruapaki was subdivided in 1950, giving rise to Dunlop Avenue with its numerous cream brick 50s houses and the house designed by Robin Boyd at No. 23 (while with Grounds, Romberg and Boyd in 1955). Ruapaki was retained by the Dunlop family until about 1960 when the property was sold. It was later divided into flats. The house was listed on the register of the National Trust of Australia. An application for listing on the Victorian Heritage Register was unsuccessful and it was demolished in 1981.

While the Dunlop sons’ courts have long since been built over, the property at 9 Studley Avenue now includes a tennis court along the Studley Avenue side. How apt!



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Archive statistics 1895 - 1914
11
176
121


Tournament wins 1913 - Bendigo Easter Tournament (Amateur)
1911 - Swedish International Covered Courts Championships (ATP)
1910 - Geelong Easter Tournament (Amateur)
1908 - Geelong Easter Tournament (Amateur)
1907 - Geelong Easter Tournament (Amateur)
1905 - Northumberland Championships (Amateur)
1900 - New Zealand Championships (Amateur)
1900 - Geelong Easter Tournament (Amateur)
1898 - Victorian Championships (Amateur)
1897 - Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament (Amateur)
1895 - Victorian Championships (Amateur)


Tournaments Wimbledon - 1914 Cannes Carlton - 1914 Queens Club Tournament - 1914 Cannes Métropole - 1914 World Hardcourt Championships - 1914 Barcelona International - 1914 Northern Lawn Tennis Association Tournament - 1914 Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament - 1914 Victorian Championships - 1913 Bendigo Easter Tournament - 1913 Victorian Championships - 1912 Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament - 1912 Wimbledon - 1911 Cannes Championships - 1911 Queens Club Tournament - 1911 Prussian Championships - 1911 Championships of Berlin - 1911 Wiesbaden Cup - 1911 Kent Championships - 1911 Swedish International Covered Courts Championships - 1911 South of England Championships - 1911 Victorian Championships - 1910 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1910 Victorian Championships - 1909 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1909 Australian Open - 1908 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1908 Victorian Championships - 1907 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1907 Victorian Championships - 1906 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1906 Frankfurt Wanderpreis - 1906 Australian Open - 1905 Wimbledon - 1905 Queens Club Tournament - 1905 Kent Championships - 1905 Northumberland Championships - 1905 Wimbledon Plate (Consolation) - 1905 Buxton - 1905 East Surrey Championships - 1905 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1904 Victorian Championships - 1903 Victorian Championships - 1902 New South Wales Championships - 1902 Victorian Championships - 1901 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1901 South Australian Championships - 1900 Victorian Championships - 1900 New Zealand Championships - 1900 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1900 Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament - 1900 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1899 Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament - 1899 Victorian Championships - 1898 New South Wales Championships - 1898 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1898 Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament - 1898 Victorian Championships - 1897 New South Wales Championships - 1897 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1897 Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament - 1897 Victorian Championships - 1896 New South Wales Championships - 1896 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1896 Victorian Championships - 1895 New South Wales Championships - 1895

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