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General First nameDr Granville Gilbert
LastnameSharp
GenderMale
CountryAustralia
Date of birth1878-07-13
Place of birthAdelaide, South Australia, Australia
Date of death1964-02-19
Place of deathSydney, New South Wales, Australia


About

A medical doctor by profession. From "The Australian Dictionary of Biography": \"Educated at Sydney Grammar School and the University of Sydney (B.Sc., 1902; M.B., Ch.M., 1904; M.D., 1918), he was a distinguished scholar [...] After postgraduate work in England in 1907-08, he returned to Sydney and was honorary assistant physician at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. From 1923 he practised as a consulting physician.

"In World War II he was involved in recruiting for the Royal Australian Air Force before joining the merchant navy as a ship's surgeon. His experience of being twelve days adrift in the Indian Ocean, after Nellore was sunk by a Japanese submarine, did not deter him from serving as medical officer in merchant ships until 1960. He died in Sydney on 19 February 1964, survived by three daughters by his wife Jane Drummond Gordon (d. 1942), née Blackmore, whom he had married in Sydney on 29 June 1911."

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Archive statistics Career1896 - 1925
Tournament wins8
Matches72
Match wins56


Tournament wins 1925 - Northern Suburbs (Amateur)
1924 - Killara (Amateur)
1909 - Metropolitan Grass Court Championships of Sydney (Amateur)
1906 - New South Wales Championships (Amateur)
1904 - New South Wales Championships (Amateur)
1904 - Metropolitan Grass Court Championships of Sydney (Amateur)
1903 - New South Wales Championships (Amateur)
1902 - Metropolitan Grass Court Championships of Sydney (Amateur)


Tournaments Northern Suburbs - 1925 Killara - 1924 Metropolitan Grass Court Championships of Sydney - 1919 County of Cumberland - 1912 Metropolitan Grass Court Championships of Sydney - 1911 New South Wales Championships - 1909 Metropolitan Grass Court Championships of Sydney - 1909 Kent Championships - 1907 Nottingham - 1907 Northumberland Championships - 1907 Middlesex Championships - 1907 Norwich Open - 1907 East Surrey Championships - 1907 New South Wales Championships - 1906 Metropolitan Grass Court Championships of Sydney - 1905 New South Wales Championships - 1904 Queensland Championships - 1904 Metropolitan Grass Court Championships of Sydney - 1904 New South Wales Championships - 1903 Metropolitan Grass Court Championships of Sydney - 1903 New South Wales Championships - 1902 Metropolitan Grass Court Championships of Sydney - 1902 Metropolitan Grass Court Championships of Sydney - 1898 Queensland Championships - 1896