[2] The event was won by Reginald Doherty and George Hillyard after defeating James Cecil Parke and Major Ritchie in the final.

Clement Cazalet and Charles P. Dixon took the bronze medal without a bronze-medal match due to the withdrawal of an entire quadrant of the bracket.

[2] Arthur Gore and Herbert Roper Barrett, who had won the indoor doubles event, were among the most notable late scratches.

[3] Austria, Bohemia, Canada, Hungary, the Netherlands, and South Africa each made their debut in the event.

The Olympics started three days after the end of the 1908 Wimbledon Championships, a scheduling issue which the Official Report recommended avoiding in the future.