George Dodd (tennis), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGeorge Dodd (tennis)
South African tennis player
Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1883
Place of Birth: Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Date of Death: 21-Jul-1957
Profession: tennis player
Nationality: South Africa
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About George Dodd (tennis)
- George Henry Dodd (16 January 1882 – 21 July 1957) was a South African tennis player.
- George was the son of Douglas William Dodd, an Anglican minister from Eton, Buckinghamshire, and Elizabeth Saffrona (née Pruen).
- He competed for South Africa in the tennis event at the 1920 Summer Olympics where he took part in the men's singles and doubles events.
- In the singles competition he reached the fourth round in which he lost to Ichiya Kumagae in straight sets.
- In the doubles he partnered Cecil Blackbeard and reached the third round.Dodd won the 1912 men's singles title at the South African Championships, defeating R.F.
- Le Sueur in the final in five sets.
- In addition he was runner-up on five occasions (1914, 1922, 1925, 1928, 1929). George was married thrice.
- His first marriage was to Grace Lilian Floquet (1887-1959) at St.
- Mary's Anglican Church in Pretoria on 10 August 1906.
- They divorced at Johannesburg on 25 January 1921.
- His second marriage was to Ann Catherine Boshoff; they were married at the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on 1 October 1921; this marriage also culminated in divorce on 26 October 1933 in Johannesburg.
- George's third and final marriage was to Agnes Ruth Joy Sackville-West (1903-1969), granddaughter of Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville on 15 October 1938 in Johannesburg.
- They were married until his death on 21 July 1957.
- George died in Durban, his cause of death cited as congestive cardiac failure, uraemia and hypertensive disease.
- His widow, Ruth, went on to marry Samuel Wells Coutts of Benoni.
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