Ashley Campbell (tennis), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian tennis player
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Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
About Ashley Campbell (tennis)
- Ashley De Vere Campbell (29 September 1880 – 5 July 1943) was an Australian male tennis player who was active before World War I.
- He was born in Sydney and attended Newington College (1893–1898) where he was a noted cricketer.
- Campbell didn't play tennis until the age of eighteen and his game was heavily influenced by David Edwards who was a fellow Old Newingtonian.
- Campbell moved to Melbourne in 1903 and was winner of the 1910 and 1914 Australasian men's doubles championships.
- From 1929 until 1939 he lived In Europe, having been an executive of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company in Australia and New Zealand.
- Campbell became secretary of the Free French movement in Victoria, and was secretary of the Red Cross and an active member of the Alliance Française.
- He died in a hospital in East St Kilda, Victoria.
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