Talk:Edgbaston Priory Club

Tennis Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Tennis, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of articles that relate to tennis on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.TennisWikipedia:WikiProject TennisTemplate:WikiProject Tennistennis articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Tennis To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Cleanup : Take an item off the Cleanup listing
Copyedit : Roger Federer, Leander Paes, Rafael Nadal, Justine Henin – to be used as examples for ideal page structures
Expand : Grab a Start article and expand it, or peruse the List of articles.
Photo : Add photos to Tennis or Tennis people articles
Stubs : Bring a Stub up to our standards.
Other : *Sign up as a member of the project.
Tag more articles with our standard project template.
Help with the creation of yearly main articles and drawsheets for every Open Era ATP and WTA tournament.

Birmingham

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Birmingham, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Birmingham on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BirminghamWikipedia:WikiProject BirminghamTemplate:WikiProject BirminghamBirmingham articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Unsourced comment[edit]

The following was added on 12:00, 17 November 2020 by an editor but is unsourced. Someone familiar with the institution may be able to better identify and integrate relevant information.

"Edgbaston Cricket & Lawn Tennis Club was founded by a breakaway from another local club which had played lawn tennis since 1872, and where the inventor of the game Major Harry Gem, who had first played lawn tennis only five minutes' walk from Edgbaston Priory's grounds, was a member." I believe this (another local club) to be a reference to the Edgbaston Archery & Lawn Tennis Society. This was formed in 1860 as the Edgbaston Archery Society and occupied the site in Hall Hill Road, now Edgbaston Park Road, which was taken over by the Edgbaston Cricket club when the Edgbaston Archery Society moved to its current location next to the Botanical Gardens in 1867. Lawn tennis pioneer Harry Gem was indeed a member of the Edgbaston Archery Society, which was certainly playing Sphairistike (Major Wingfield's game later to be known as Lawn Tennis) by 1875, if not the year before. Major Wingfield's game was not on the market until 1874 and the first person in Birmingham to buy one of Wingfield's Sphairistike sets in 1874 was Augustus Calthorpe of Perry Hall. The game played by Harry Gem and his friend and co-pioneer was not played in public until they formed their lawn tennis club at the Manor House Hotel in Leamington Spa in 1874. Robert Holland, Trustee, Edgbaston Archery & Lawn Tennis Society.

–Q8682 (talk) 07:43, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]