Clement Haughton Langston Cazalet (16 July 1869 – 23 March 1950) was a British
tennis
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player who competed in the
1908 Summer Olympics
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.
He was the son among 10 children of businessman William Clement Cazalet
[ (brother of ]Edward Cazalet
Sir Edward Stephen Cazalet DL (born 26 April 1936) is a retired judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
Early life
Edward Cazalet was born in 1936, the son of the Queen Mother's racehorse trainer Peter Cazalet and Leonora Wodehouse, t ...
) and Emmeline Agnes Cazalet (nee Fawcett). Cazalet was educated at Rugby School
Rugby School is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. Up ...
and Trinity College, Cambridge
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.
In 1908 he won the bronze medal in the men's doubles competition together with his partner Charles Dixon.
While serving in the First World War
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as a Major and volunteer ambulance driver with the British Red Cross Society
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and St John Ambulance Brigade
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,[ Cazalet was awarded the ]Distinguished Service Order
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in the 1917 Birthday Honours
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. By profession he was a marine engineer who worked on undersea cable laying projects in the Atlantic
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and Pacific Ocean
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References
1869 births
1950 deaths
19th-century male tennis players
English male tennis players
Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
Olympic tennis players for Great Britain
Sportspeople from Westminster
Tennis people from Greater London
Tennis players at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in tennis
Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
British Army personnel of World War I
People educated at Rugby School
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
British male tennis players
Clement
Clement or Clément may refer to:
People
* Clement (name), a given name and surname
* Saint Clement (disambiguation)#People
Places
* Clément, French Guiana, a town
* Clement, Missouri, U.S.
* Clement Township, Michigan, U.S.
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