Vane Hungerford Pennell (August 16, 1876 – June 17, 1938) was a British

Great Britain

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 rackets

Racquets (sport)

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 and real tennis

Real tennis

Real tennis – one of several games sometimes called "the sport of kings" – is the original indoor racquet sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis , is descended...

 player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics

1908 Summer Olympics

The 1908 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the IV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in 1908 in London, England, United Kingdom. These games were originally scheduled to be held in Rome. At the time they were the fifth modern Olympic games...

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Life

Vane Pennell was educated at Eton

Eton College

Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....

, Charterhouse

Charterhouse School

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 and Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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He won the amateur tennis championship, 1904, and the gold prize at Lords, 1907. In the 1908 Olympics he won the gold medal in the men's doubles competition together with John Jacob Astor

John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever

Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever DL was a British military officer, statesman, a newspaper proprietor, and a member of the prominent Astor family...

. In the men's singles event

Rackets at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's singles

The men's singles competition was one of two rackets events held as part of the Rackets at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme.-Standings:-Bracket:...

 he lost his first match.

He also competed in the Olympic jeu de paume tournament

Jeu de paume at the 1908 Summer Olympics

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 but was eliminated in the quarter-finals.

External links

• Vane Pennell at Flickr Commons
• profile