Lottie Dod
(1871-1960)

woman, Wimbledon Ladies Singles Champion (1887-1889), and Wimbledon Ladies Singles Champion (1891-1894)

Died aged c. 89

Charlotte Dod (24 September 1871 – 27 June 1960) was an English multi-sport athlete, best known as a tennis player. She won the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Championship five times, the first one when she was only fifteen in the summer of 1887. She remains the youngest ladies' singles champion. In addition to tennis, Dod competed in many other sports, including golf, field hockey, and archery. She also won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship, played twice for the England women's national field hockey team (which she helped to found), and won a silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in archery. The Guinness Book of Records has named her as the most versatile female athlete of all time, together with track and field athlete and fellow golf player Babe Zaharias.

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Commemorated on 2 plaques

From 1905-13 Newbury was the home of the outstanding versatile sportswoman Charlotte Dod, known as Lottie Dod (1871-1960). Ladies' tennis champion at Wimbledon in 1887 (aged 15), 1888, 1891, 1892, and 1893, and also many other British tennis tournaments. In 1899 and 1900 she played in international matches for the England hockey team, which she helped to found. In 1904 she won the British amateur golf championship at Troon, At the 1908 Summer Olympics at White City, she won the women's silver medal in archery. These were the only sports in which women competed at an international level at that time. Lottie also participated in cycling events, the St Moritz figure skating test, the Cresta Run, mountaineering, and curling. Lottie was born and lived her early life in Bebington, Cheshire. Shew moved to Edgecombe, Woodbridge in Newbury (now the site of Woodridge House) in 1905. She moved to Devon in 1913 and settled in London in 1921.

Tennis Courts, Victoria Park, Newbury, United Kingdom where they lived near

Charlotte 'Lottie' Dod 1871-1960 Five times Wimbledon Ladies' singles Champion. Inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame 1983. Also an Olympian archer; champion golfer and all round athlete. Born and lived here

Church Road, Bebington, Wirral, United Kingdom where they was born (1871)