Ernest Browne

Browne played his first tournament in April at 1880 at a tournament staged in Cheltenham on clay he reached the final before losing to Ernest Renshaw. In late May 1880 he entered the Irish Lawn Tennis Championships and reached the All-Comers final losing to William Renshaw in straight sets. In 1881 he entered three tournaments this year including the South of England Championships losing in the 1st round. At Irish Championships he lost a second match against Herbert Lawford retiring at two sets to one down. He reached his second successive Cheltenham final in 1881 before losing to William Renshaw. Browne took part in the Wimbledon Championships between 1882 and 1885. In 1885 he reached the semifinals of the all-comers-competition, but lost to Ernest Renshaw.[4] He won the Irish Championships in doubles (1882) and mixed doubles (1882, 1883) the Scottish Championships singles title consecutively three times from (1889–91).[5] and the Welsh Championships singles title twice (1886–87). In addition he won three consecutive West of England Championships, (1883,84,85) titles at Bath and the Cheltenham tournament singles title four times, (1881, 1885–87).[6] Browne was a friend and mentor of Ernest and William Renshaw.[7] He played his last tournament at the 1892 Scottish Championships where he was defending in the challenge round against challenger Arthur Gore he conceded the title by a walkover.

Ernest was born in 1855 in England. He was baptised 20 October 1855 in Great Malvern, Worcester, England the son of George & Susanna Mary Browne.[8] He married Ellen Augusta Ramsay the daughter of Sir Alexander Ramsay in Kensington London in December 1885.[9] After his retirement he resided in Tullamore, King's County, Ireland.[10] His wife Ellen Browne died in Cheltenham,[11] Gloucestershire in June 1929 he spent his final years in England and died in Cheltenham England in 1946 at the age of 90.[12]

Notes: Challenge Round: the final round of a tournament, in which the winner of a single-elimination phase faces the previous year's champion, who plays only that one match. The challenge round was used in the early history of tennis (from 1877 through 1921),[13] in some tournaments not all.

Singles titles

No	Year	Tournament	Location	Surface	Opponent	Score
1.	1881	Cheltenham [14]	Cheltenham	Grass	Robert W. G. L. Braddell	6–3. 6–3, 3–6, 6–0
2.	1883	South of Ireland Championships [15]	Limerick	Hard	William Dawson	6–3, 6–2, 6-5
3.	1883	West of England Championships [16]	Bath	Grass	Wilfred Milne	6–3, 6–2, 6–3
4.	1884	West of England Championships	Bath	Grass	C. K. Wood	6–4, 6–2, 6–4
5.	1884	North Yorkshire Championships[17]	Scarborough	Grass	Marmaduke S. Constable	6–1 ret.
6.	1884	King’s County and Ormonde Tournament	Parsonstown	Grass	Eyre Chatterton	w.o.
7.	1885	West of England Championships [18]	Bath	Grass	James Dwight	6–3, 6–1, 6–4
8.	1885	East Gloucestershire Championships	Cheltenham	Grass	Charles Hoadley Ashe Ross	6–4, 6–3, 6–2
9.	1885	North Yorkshire Championships	Scarborough	Grass	E.W. Fletcher	6–2, 6–2, 6–4
10.	1885	King’s County and Ormonde Tournament	Parsonstown	Grass	Toler Roberts Garvey	6–1, 6–2 *
11.	1886	Harrogate	Harrogate [19]	Grass	Gilbert Mahon	3–6, 4–6, 6–4, 6–4, 6–4
12.	1886	North of England Championships	Scarborough [20]	Grass	Harry Grove	6–3, 4–6, 6–3, 2–6, 6–2
13.	1886	Welsh Championships [21]	Penarth	Grass	James Baldwin	6–0 ret.
14.	1886	East Gloucestershire Championships	Cheltenham	Grass	James Dwight	6–3, 6–2, 2–6, 9–7
15.	1887	North of England Championships [22]	Scarborough	Grass	James Baldwin	7–5, 6–1, 6–3
16.	1887	Welsh Championships[21][23]	Penarth	Grass	James Baldwin	6–1, 6–2 ret. *
17.	1887	East Gloucestershire Championships[24]	Cheltenham	Grass	James Dwight	3–6, 6–3, 6–1, 4–6, 6–2
18.	1889	Scottish Championships [25]	Edinburgh	Grass	Patrick Bowes Lyon	6–4, 6–4 6–2
19.	1890	Scottish Championships [25]	Edinburgh	Grass	George R. Mewburn	6–3, 3–6, 6–1, 6–4 *
20.	1891	Scottish Championships [25]	Edinburgh	Grass	Arthur Carvosso	6–3, 6–3 6–1 *

• Collins, Bud (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis: An Authoritative Encyclopedia and Record Book (2 ed.). New Chapter Press. ISBN 9780942257700.
• Myers. Arthur Wallis (1903): Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad. Charles Scribner's and Sons, New York, USA.

• https://www.freebmd.org.uk/brith/marriages/deaths register 1946