Ernest Meers
Full name: Ernest George Meers
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| Bio | Ernest earned a Bachelor of Music from Queen's College, Oxford and was later the chairman and managing director of Watts Ltd, gummakers. His very first tournament was at the North of England Championships in Scarborough in 1884, that started in the round of 16 and reached his first final at Sittingbourne in 1885 losing to Ernest Wool Lewis. Meers played at the Wimbledon Championships between 1890 and 1895, reaching the quarterfinals of the all-comers competition in 1894 and the semifinals in 1895. He reached the semifinals of the U.S. National Championships in 1889 and won the British Covered Court Championships in 1892. His other singles successes included winning the British Covered Court Championships indoors on hard wood courts in 1891. He won the Kent Championships on grass three times (1888, 1890–91). In addition he also won three titles at the Essex Championships (1887–88, 1890) and the Chingford Open (1888), the Middlesex Championships onetime in 1891.He played his last tournament at the British Covered Court Championships in 1896 going out in the quarter-finals. He married Eliza Rose, daughter of Captain Henry Douglas-Hart of the Madras Army, who was assassinated while serving in India in 1858. They had three sons and two daughters who survived him. |
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