death_place death_date birth_place wimbledonresult birth_date article_title name
marylebone , london 10 january 1894 keswick , cumberland qf -lrb- 1878 -rrb- 16 april 1851 arthur thomas myers
 arthur thomas myers
arthur thomas myers

dr arthur thomas myers -lrb- 16 april 1851 -- 10 january 1894 -rrb- was a british physician and sportsman .
as a tennis player he participated in two wimbledon championships and also played first-class cricket .
while studying at trinity college in 1870 , myers played a first-class cricket match for cambridge university against the marylebone cricket club .
he batted in the middle order and scored seven in the first innings , then six in the second .
he was a cambridge apostle .
in 1878 he competed in his first wimbledon and made it into the quarter-finals , before being defeated in straight sets by eventual champion frank hadow .
the following year he won his first two matches and was eliminated in the third round , by irishman c. d. barry .
myers suffered from epilepsy and is believed to have taken his own life in 1894 .
john hughlings jackson published a study of his case .
he was the brother of scholar frederic william henry myers and poet ernest myers .
