Dudley Thomas Reynolds
Larcombe
Male
England
1879-06-22
Hampton Hill, London, England
1944-12-03
Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England
From The Times, 6 December 1944: Major D.T.R. Larcombe, of Budleigh Salterton, Devon, late secretary and manager of the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon, died on Sunday at the age of 65. Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe, born in 1879, son of Thomas Larcombe, was educated at King’s College School. From 1907 to 1913 he held a commission in the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry, and in the last war served from 1914 t o 1919 in the Royal Army Pay Corps, retiring as major. In his younger days he was a good hockey player, appearing for Middlesex. For a time he was games manager at Roehampton, and he was an assistant referee at the Wimbledon Championships. But his name will be best remembered, however, as the manager for 14 years before he retired of the famous annual tennis tournament at Wimbledon. He married in 1906 Ethel Warneford Thomson, daughter of Herbert Warneford Thomson, M.D. She is a former Wimbledon champion [having won the women’s single title in 1912].
1905 - 1922
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Final
Frank Fisher 1 *
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe
5-7
6-1
6-4
Round 1
Harold Gaye Michelmore 1 *
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe
6-3
6-3
Round 2
Stanton Freeland Card 1 *
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe
w.o.
Round 2
Cecil Stewart Hartley 1 *
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe
8-6
8-6
3-0
ret.
Round 2
George Lawrence Orme 1 *
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe
w.o.
Round 1
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe 1 *
Frederick William Charlton
6-1
6-4
Round 2
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe 1 *
Alfred Leonard Bentley
6-3
2-6
8-6
Quarterfinals
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe 1 *
G.E.H. Ellis
w.o.
Semifinals
Arthur Gore 1 *
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe
6-2
6-3
Round 1
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe 1 *
Steuart Pickering Hayley
6-1
6-2
Round 2
Dr Herbert Edwin Tonge Dawes 1 *
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe
6-2
6-3
Round 1
Arthur Gore 1 *
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe
6-4
6-1
Round 1
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe 1 *
F.A. Forde
6-4
6-1
Round 2
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe 1 *
J.B. Ward
6-3
6-3
Round 3
Norman Brookes 1 *
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe
6-0
6-2
Round 1
John Flavelle 1 *
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe
6-3
6-2
3-6
6-1
Round 2
George Miéville Simond 1 *
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe
6-2
6-4
Round 1
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe 1 *
Frank Warner Abbatt
6-0
6-1
Round 2
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe 1 *
Cecil Stewart Hartley
6-3
6-4
Quarterfinals
Kenneth Powell 1 *
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe
6-3
6-4
Round 1
Philip Rufford Hewlett 1 *
Dudley Thomas Reynolds Larcombe
2-6
4-2
ret.