Wilberforce Eaves

Wilberforce Vaughan Eaves MBE (10 December 1867 – 10 February 1920) was an Australian-born tennis player from the United Kingdom.

[2] At the 1908 London Olympics he won a bronze medal in the Men's Singles tournament.

[4] He reached the Men's Singles All-Comers' final at the Wimbledon Championships in 1895 and lost against Wilfred Baddeley despite having had a match point in the third set.

Qualified as a doctor of medicine, he served as a civil surgeon in the Boer War, and took a temporary commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the first week of World War I, on 10 August 1914, being promoted to Captain after a year's service.

[9] He was later awarded a MBE for his services and died in London, where he is buried in Greenwich Cemetery.