Edith Margaret Hannam (nee Boucher) (28 November 1878 – 16 January 1951) was a female tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player from Great Britain. She played at the 1912 Summer Olympics

1912 Summer Olympics

The 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, between 5 May and 27 July 1912. Twenty-eight nations and 2,407 competitors, including 48 women, competed in 102 events in 14 sports...

 and won two gold medals.

Family life

Edith Margaret Boucher was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire on 28 November 1878, the daughter of John and Julia Boucher, her father was a pharmaceutical chemist.

Boucher married Francis John Hannam at Long Ashton in 1909, as a Captain in the Gloucestershire Regiment he was killed in action in France on 5 July 1916.

Tennis career

In 1909 at the tennis tournament in Cincinnati

Cincinnati Masters

The Cincinnati Open is an annual outdoor hardcourts tennis event held in the Cincinnati suburb of Mason, Ohio, USA. The event started on September 18, 1899 and is the oldest tennis tournament in the United States played in its original city., Between...

, Hannam won the singles and mixed doubles titles and was a doubles finalist. She beat Martha Kinsey

Martha Kinsey

Martha Kinsey was an important American amateur tennis player in the early part of the 20th century andAt the tennis tournament in Cincinnati, Kinsey, a left-hander, reached nine finals: four doubles finals, three singles finals and two mixed doubles finals...

 in the final for the singles title, paired with Julius Frieberg to reach the doubles final, and teammed with Lincoln Mitchell to win the mixed doubles title

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