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Walter Clopton Wingfield

Welsh sportsman and military officer (1833–1912); inventor of modern tennis.

Born October 16th, 1833 in Ruabon.

Died April 18th, 1912 at 78 years old in London.

Occupations
inventor, military officer, tennis player

It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks