Jack Montagu
Hillyard
Male
England
1891-01-02
Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England
1983-02-16
Blarney Castle, County Cork, Ireland
Adapted slightly from Wikipedia at: Jack Hillyard - Wikipedia
Jack Hillyard was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, the son of Commander George Whiteside Hillyard and Blanche Bingley. His father won an Olympic gold medal for tennis in 1908, and his mother won the women’s singles title at Wimbledon six times between 1886 and 1900. His younger sister Marjorie was born in 1896, in the Hillyard’s house, The Elms, in Thorpe Satchville, Leicestershire.
Jack Hillyard attended Harrow School, and played in the Eton versus Harrow cricket match twice. In 1909, he took 3 wickets; the following year, in the famous match that became known as “Fowler’s match”, he was Harrow’s top scorer, reaching 62 runs in the first innings, and took 5 wickets, but against the odds Harrow lost to Eton. Hillyard served in the Royal Field Artillery in the First World War, spending four years in France and reaching the rank of major. His father served in the Royal Navy.
Jack Hillyard took part in the men’s singles event at Wimbledon from 1920 to 1930, and from 1932 and 1934, reaching the third round in 1920, 1922 and 1923. He lost the final of the All England Plate in 1924 to Jack Condon, but won the Surrey Grass Court Championships that year. He also won the Romsey Open in 1920, beating Bernard Vernon-Harcourt in the final.
Hillyard achieved greater success in the men’s and mixed doubles events. He was Riviera doubles champion with Erik Worm, and won the Monte Carlo Second Meeting in April 1921. He reached the quarter-finals at Wimbledon in both the men’s doubles and mixed doubles in 1921, with Algernon Kingscote and Phyllis Satterthwaite respectively. He repeated the feat in 1923, with Gerald Sherwell and Satterthwaite again.
Hillyard married writer Fabienne d’Avilla in 1945. She was the daughter of French author Léon Brethous-Lafargue and the divorced wife of Pedro Frederico Vaz de Carvalhaes. She wrote under the names Francis D’Avilla and Evelyn Fabyan. She did not remarry after she and Hillyard divorced, and died in 1980.
In 1952 Hillyard married, secondly, Mary Penelope Colthurst, daughter of Sir Richard Saint-John Jefferyes Colthurst, 8th Baronet. She had divorced her first husband, Brigadier Godfrey John Hamilton, in 1942. She inherited Blarney Castle in County Cork, Ireland, and died in 1975. Jack Hillyard died at Blarney Castle in February 1983 at the age of 92. He left no children.
1905 - 1946
22
216
130
1927 - Middlesex Championships (Amateur)
1926 - Hampshire Championships (Amateur)
1926 - Winchester (Amateur)
1925 - Hunstanton (Amateur)
1924 - Harpenden (Amateur)
1924 - Bordighera (Amateur)
1924 - Nottingham (Open)
1924 - Midland Counties Championships (Amateur)
1924 - Sussex Championships (Amateur)
1924 - Surrey Championships (Amateur)
1924 - Hyères (Amateur)
1924 - Beaulieu (Open)
1923 - Angmering-on-Sea (Amateur)
1923 - Bordighera (Amateur)
1923 - East Grinstead (Amateur)
1923 - Hyères (Amateur)
1922 - Harpenden (Amateur)
1922 - Bordighera (Amateur)
1921 - Falmouth (Amateur)
1921 - Dovercourt Hard Courts (Amateur)
1921 - Monte Carlo Easter Tournament (Amateur)
1920 - Dovercourt Hard Courts (Amateur)
Round 2
Theodore Gilbert Figgis 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-2
6-2
Round 1
Pierre Chevalier 1 *
Jack Hillyard
w.o.
Semifinals
Vladimir Landau 1 *
Jack Hillyard
?
Round 1
Irving Horace (Laddie) Wheatcroft 1 *
Jack Hillyard
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
A. Samson
6-4
6-1
Semifinals
Vladimir Landau 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-2
6-4
Round 1
Raymond Rodel 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-4
6-2
6-0
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
L. Martinelli
6-4
6-3
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Mr. Rogner
w.o.
Round 3
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Karl Schneider
7-5
6-2
Quarterfinals
Louis Haensch 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-2
7-5
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
F. Clerici
6-4
6-3
Quarterfinals
Leonardo Bonzi 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-3
6-8
6-3
Round 1
Tatsuyoshi (Ryuki) Miki 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-1
6-3
11-13
8-6
Round 1
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Dr Conrad Kupsch
3-6
8-6
6-3
Round 3
Wilbur Coen 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-1
6-4
Quarterfinals
Hira-Lal Soni 1 *
Jack Hillyard
w.o.
Round 2
A. Renard 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-2
4-6
6-1
Round 2
Ennio Ricci 1 *
Jack Hillyard
3-6
7-5
6-3
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Costas F. Efstratiadis
6-2
6-2
6-3
Round 2
Hendrik (Henk) Timmer 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-3
6-0
6-2
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
A. Renard
6-3
8-6
Semifinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Giorgio De Stefani
6-1
5-7
7-5
Final
Brame Hillyard 1 *
Jack Hillyard
9-7
6-3
6-2
Round 1
Edward Vivian Bobb 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-4
6-2
3-6
6-4
Unknown
Jack Hillyard 1 *
J. Parisot
6-2
6-1
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Walter Mackenthun
6-2
6-3
4-6
6-3
Round 2
Mohammed Sleem 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-3
6-0
6-3
Round 1
Christian Boussus 1 *
Jack Hillyard
9-7
7-5
6-4
Round 1
George E. Lyttleton-Rogers 1 *
Jack Hillyard
w.o.
Round 1
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Vladimir Landau
6-1
6-1
6-2
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
George E. Lyttleton-Rogers
0-6
6-4
6-2
6-4
Semifinals
Hermann Wilhelm Artens 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-8
6-2
7-5
3-6
6-2
Final
David H. Williams 1 *
Jack Hillyard
8-6
6-1
3-6
6-1
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Dr Francis (Frank) Crosbie
6-3
6-3
Final
René de Buzelet 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-1
6-0
Semifinals
Gordon Lowe 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-3
3-6
6-4
Round 1
Round 2
Stanislav Czetwertynski 1 *
Jack Hillyard
5-7
6-3
6-0
Final
Hector Cosmo Fisher 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-1
9-7
5-7
6-1
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Udupi Diggavi Ranga Rao
6-3
6-1
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
C. Coppinger
6-8
6-3
6-0
8-6
Final
Arthur W. Hill 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-3
6-3
1-6
6-4
Round 1
Hassan Ali Fyzee 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-4
6-4
6-3
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
William Leitrim Clements
6-1
6-3
Final
Henry Mayes 1 *
Jack Hillyard
8-6
1-6
6-3
6-3
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Reverend Wilfrid Hay MacDowall Aitken
6-2
6-3
7-5
Round 2
Frank Hunter 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-1
6-3
6-2
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Mr. Spear Cole
6-1
6-0
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Mr. White(1)
6-1
6-2
Round 3
Jack Hillyard 1 *
O.G. Miller
6-3
6-3
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Arthur Wallis Myers
9-7
6-4
Semifinals
Leonce Aslangul 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-1
6-2
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
A.K. Davis
6-4
8-6
Round 3
Jack Hillyard 1 *
G.A.W. Williams
6-2
6-3
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
C. Martin
6-2
8-6
Semifinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Leonce Aslangul
7-5
6-4
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Umberto de Morpurgo
6-3
6-4
6-2
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
G.E. Dunning
6-3
6-3
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Cunliffe Brooke-Leggatt
6-4
6-4
Round 3
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Captain G. Aylmer
6-2
6-0
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Gordon Lowe
3-6
8-6
8-6
Semifinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Francis Riou Leighton-Crawford
1-6
6-3
6-3
Final
Henry Mayes 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-1
6-2
6-1
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
E.H.B. Neill
w.o.
Round 3
Jack Hillyard 1 *
F.H. Taylor
6-3
7-5
Round 4
Jack Hillyard 1 *
James (Jimmy) H. van Alen
8-6
7-5
Quarterfinals
Rene Lacoste 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-2
6-4
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
François-Xavier Louis Reumont de Poligny
w.o.
Round 3
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Roland de Graffenried
6-2
6-3
Round 4
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Frederick Roosevelt Scovel
6-4
6-3
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Gordon Lowe
10-8
6-1
Semifinals
Charles Aeschlimann 1 *
Jack Hillyard
3-6
6-3
6-1
Round 2
Edward McGuire 1 *
Jack Hillyard
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
George Cholmondeley
4-6
6-4
6-3
Semifinals
Henry Mayes 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-3
6-3
Round 2
François-Xavier Louis Reumont de Poligny 1 *
Jack Hillyard
w.o.
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
C. Roberto (Robbie) Bocciardo
7-5
13-11
4-6
6-3
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Robert B. Pope
6-1
6-2
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
E.T. King
6-1
6-4
Round 3
Jack Hillyard 1 *
George Cartwright
6-3
6-3
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
James North Lowry
6-2
6-4
Semifinals
Brame Hillyard 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-0
7-5
Round 1
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
John Peacock
4-6
6-4
9-7
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Brame Hillyard
4-6
6-1
8-6
Semifinals
Leonce Aslangul 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-3
4-6
7-5
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
F.E. Koebel
6-1
?
Semifinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Beverly Carthew Covell
6-3
6-3
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Ernest Lamb
4-6
6-4
3-6
6-2
6-4
Final
Algernon Kingscote 1 *
Jack Hillyard
8-6
9-7
6-2
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Francis Riou Leighton-Crawford
1-6
6-4
6-1
7-5
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Henry Mayes
6-4
1-6
10-12
6-3
6-2
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Gordon Crole-Rees
6-4
7-5
6-4
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
George S. Fletcher
9-11
9-11
6-2
6-4
7-5
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
S. Jacobs
w.o.
Semifinals
P. Malone 1 *
Jack Hillyard
w.o.
Final
Jack Condon 1 *
Jack Hillyard
7-5
6-2
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Frank Herbert Jarvis
6-4
6-4
Round 3
Jack Hillyard 1 *
F.F. Craggs
6-1
6-1
Round 4
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Roger G. Stone
3-6
6-0
6-2
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
George Cholmondeley
6-1
6-0
Semifinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Col. Charles Isherwood Brierley
6-1
6-2
Final
Henry Mayes 1 *
Jack Hillyard
7-5
6-1
6-1
Preliminary Round
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Alfredo J. (Chiquito) Villegas
6-3
6-2
7-5
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Col. Charles Isherwood Brierley
6-1
6-2
6-4
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Reverend Wilfrid Hay MacDowall Aitken
7-5
7-5
6-2
Round 3
Maxwell (Max) Woosnam 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-4
6-3
6-3
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
H.S. Tufton
6-4
6-1
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Henri Armand (Yorrick) Resuge
6-3
6-3
Round 3
Henry Mayes 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-1
6-2
Quarterfinals
Erik Tegner 1 *
Jack Hillyard
4-6
6-2
8-6
Round 1
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Bertram Marion-Crawford
6-4
6-1
Round 3
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Maurice A. Ferrier
6-3
6-1
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Sune Malmstrom
6-3
3-6
11-9
Semifinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Charles Aeschlimann
6-2
6-0
Final
Henry Mayes 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-2
6-1
5-7
6-4
Round 1
Round 2
Major Josiah George Ritchie 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-4
7-5
Round 1
Ashoke C. Gupta 1 *
Jack Hillyard
w.o.
Semifinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
H.P. Guinness
6-1
4-6
6-2
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Brame Hillyard
4-6
6-3
6-3
6-3
Final
Donald Greig 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-1
6-0
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Charles Aeschlimann
4-6
6-2
10-8
Semifinals
Alain Gerbault 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-8
6-4
6-2
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Syed Mohammad Hadi
6-4
6-1
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Major Josiah George Ritchie
6-2
6-3
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Francis Riou Leighton-Crawford
1-6
6-3
6-3
9-7
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Augustos G. Zerlendis
6-2
0-6
6-4
5-7
6-3
Round 3
Pat O'Hara Wood 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-3
4-6
6-2
6-0
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Rupert Wertheim
6-2
6-4
Round 2
Giovanni (Mino) Balbi de Robecco 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-0
10-8
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
W.C. Emmett
6-0
6-0
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
George Anthony Greig
6-4
6-2
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Frederick Roosevelt Scovel
6-2
6-0
Semifinals
D.L. Morgan 1 *
Jack Hillyard
9-7
7-5
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
R. Clemensin du Maine
6-0
6-3
Round 3
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Frederick Noel Warden
7-5
6-3
Quarterfinals
Jean Borotra 1 *
Jack Hillyard
10-8
6-3
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Brame Hillyard
6-1
6-3
Round 3
Jack Hillyard 1 *
N.J. Watson
6-0
6-0
Quarterfinals
Henri Cochet 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-2
6-4
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
A. Night
6-1
6-3
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
C.W. Murray
6-1
6-1
Quarterfinals
Guy Louis Albert Brian 1 *
Jack Hillyard
7-5
6-4
Round 1
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Ernest Lamb
6-3
6-1
Quarterfinals
Mikhail Sumarokov-Elston 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-2
6-4
Semifinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
D.L. Morgan
6-1
2-6
6-1
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
P. Marsden
4-6
6-4
8-6
6-1
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
P. Clifford
6-0
6-0
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
R.A. Raphael
6-1
6-2
Quarterfinals
Charles Aeschlimann 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-1
5-7
6-0
Round 1
C.B. Waterlow 1 *
Jack Hillyard
w.o.
Semifinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
H.A. Thomas
?
Final
Alain Léon André Resuge 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-1
6-4
8-6
Round 1
A. Georges Watson 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-3
3-6
2-6
8-6
6-2
Round 1
Round 2
C.B. Waterlow 1 *
Jack Hillyard
w.o.
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
T. Robinson
7-5
8-6
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Mark Hick
7-5
6-1
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
L.S. Holmes
6-2
6-3
Semifinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
William D. Radcliffe
6-2
1-6
8-6
Final
Ernest George Bisseker 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-3
5-7
6-8
6-2
6-3
Final
George Cholmondeley 1 *
Jack Hillyard
2-6
2-6
6-3
6-4
6-3
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Frank Herbert Jarvis
0-6
6-4
12-10
Round 1
Frank Hunter 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-3
6-2
6-0
Round 3
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Charles E.L. Lyle
6-4
6-2
Quarterfinals
Ernest George Bisseker 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-8
6-2
6-4
Quarterfinals
Alain Léon André Resuge 1 *
Jack Hillyard
12-10
8-6
Round 1
Alfred C. Hunter 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-1
1-6
6-3
Round 1
Round 2
R. Dunkerley 1 *
Jack Hillyard
w.o.
Round 2
George Cholmondeley 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-4
7-5
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Maurice A. Ferrier
2-6
6-3
6-4
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Emile Gerrit de Serrière
6-3
6-3
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Ullah Kramet
2-6
6-1
6-1
Semifinals
Mikhail Sumarokov-Elston 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-3
3-6
6-4
Semifinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Alain Léon André Resuge
6-4
1-6
6-3
Final
Gordon Lowe 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-1
6-0
4-0
ret.
Quarterfinals
Gordon Lowe 1 *
Jack Hillyard
7-5
6-2
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
S.F. Harrison
6-1
6-4
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Charles Aeschlimann
6-3
6-2
3-6
4-6
6-2
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Malcolm Dennis (Tim) Horn
12-10
6-3
7-5
Round 2
H.J. Graham Bennett 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-1
7-5
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Andrew William Asthalter
w.o.
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Leslie Allison Godfree
6-4
5-7
4-6
6-2
6-3
Round 3
Alexander Sutherland (Alex) Drew 1 *
Jack Hillyard
4-6
6-1
6-1
6-4
Round 1
Arthur Henry Riseley 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-0
6-1
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
George Cartwright
4-6
6-3
6-2
Round 2
George Alan Thomas 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-3
2-6
6-2
Semifinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Geoffrey Blenkinsop Youll
3-6
7-5
6-3
Final
J.T. Baines 1 *
Jack Hillyard
w.o.
Round 2
William G. (Bunny) Ireland 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-2
4-6
6-1
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
B.W. Vane Percy
6-3
5-7
6-3
Round 2
Jack Hillyard 1 *
S.C. Wu
6-3
6-3
Round 3
Oswald Graham Noel Turnbull 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-3
6-3
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
G.R.C. Stuart
6-1
6-2
Semifinals
Cecil John Tindell-Green 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-4
8-6
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
William Kenneth Eustace Jameson
6-3
6-2
Semifinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
Leslie Allison Godfree
6-1
7-9
6-1
Final
George Dodd 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-1
6-2
6-1
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
H.G. Lightbody
6-3
6-3
Semifinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
E.U. Williams
6-4
6-4
Final
Frank Herbert Jarvis 1 *
Jack Hillyard
4-6
6-4
6-4
Round 1
Jack Hillyard 1 *
D. Ritchie
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
G.H. Knowles
7-5
10-8
Semifinals
Jack Hillyard 1 *
B. Carlyon-Hughes
6-3
6-0
Final
Jack Hillyard 1 *
J.B. Ward
6-3
6-4
Round 1
R.J. Hudson 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-4
6-0
Round 1
W. Hall 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-3
6-4
Round 1
Herbert Durrant Snook 1 *
Jack Hillyard
6-4
4-6
6-2