page_title: Ted Tinling
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Ted Tinling / Later life
caption_attribution_description: English: Rod Humphries with Ted Tinling at the Spectrum Stadium in Philadelphia during a US Pro Indoor tennis tournament
context_page_description: Cuthbert Collingwood "Ted" Tinling, sometimes known as Teddy Tinling, was a fashion designer, spy and author. He was a firm fixture on the professional tennis tour for over 60 years and is considered the foremost designer of tennis dresses of the 20th century.
context_section_description: In 1975, Tinling moved to Philadelphia. He remained a consultant to the women's tour even after he gave up design in his old age. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1986.
  He wrote several books on tennis in the 1980s, but respiratory problems continued to affect him and he died in 1990.  After his death it was revealed he had been a British Intelligence spy during the Second World War.
caption: Ted Tinling and Rod Humphries in 1979
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