| Summary: | The collection comprise research notes, correspondence, press cuttings and publications, photographs, etc., together with copies of national and local newspapers and journals (which include references to tennis and rackets), which Lord Aberdare assembled in the course of his lifelong research into the history of (real) tennis and rackets, on which he has published the two standard works, The Story of Tennis (1959) and The Willis Faber Book of Tennis and Rackets (1980). Some of the papers were assembled by his father, the 3rd Baron Aberdare (1885-1957), the distinguished athlete, who, with E.B. Noel, was author of First Steps to Rackets (1926) and was editor of the Lonsdale Library volume on Rackets, Squash Rackets, Tennis, Fives and Badminton (1933). The papers were principally assembled over the period since 1932. |
|---|
| Date: | (1619), 1682-2000 |
|---|
| Reference Number: | GB 141 D434 |
|---|
| Bibliography: | [Book] Aberdare, Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, Baron, 1919-, The J.T. Faber book of tennis and rackets, London : Quiller, 2001. |
|---|
| Biographical/Administrative Information: | Lord Aberdare, a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, was President, inter alia, of The Tennis and Rackets Association. For a summary of his distinguished career in politics and public life, see his entry in Who's Who 2000 and also in Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (2000); the latter work makes reference also to the career of his father, the 3rd Baron. See, too, the article on the 3rd Baron Aberdare by Michael Maclagan in The Dictionary of National Biography 1951-1960 (Oxford U.P., 1971), pp.152-3. Lord Aberdare died on 23 January 2005. An obituary was published in The Times on 29 January 2005. |
|---|