Vere Thomas "St. Leger" Goold (2 October 1853[2] – 8 September 1909) was an Irish tennis player who competed for the 1879 Wimbledon All Comers' final.

He quickly faded from the game and in 1907 was sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island for the murder of a Swedish widow in Monte Carlo.

Later that summer, Vere tried his luck at the third Wimbledon Championships and made it to the All-Comers final on 15 July in which he was defeated by John Hartley, 2–6, 4–6, 2–6.

After an illness, he failed to defend his Irish title in 1880, losing out in the Challenge Round, again to William Renshaw 1–6, 4–6, 3–6.

[6] One day, he was asked by a relative to pay a bill at a dressmaker's shop in the Bayswater area of London, that was owned by Marie Giraudin.

At the casino, they met a wealthy Swedish woman, Emma Levin, the widow of a Stockholm broker.

Mrs Levin already had a friend named Madame Castellazi accompanying her, but soon the widow had Mrs. Goold as well.

Again, the details of the sources vary: Kingston says he wanted them to explain why it was leaking blood and come to the station to open the trunk; Gribble says that Pons sought (and got) a small bribe to stay quiet about it.

[14] Vere Goold died by suicide on 8 September 1909, within a year of arriving at Devil's Island.[15].

[8][17] The murder case of Vere St. Leger Goold is the subject of a theatrical play called Love All.

[18][19] His life was also the subject of a 2012 docudrama on Irish station TG4 entitled Dhá Chúirt ("Two Courts"), produced by Shane Tobin and directed by Cathal Watters.