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Juan Bautista Luis Augurio Perera Orfila (c.1822 – 1905), known as Augurio Perera, was a Spanish-born merchant and sportsman based in England, credited alongside his friend Harry Gem as a lawn tennis pioneer.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 20 relations: Augurius of Tarragona, Basque pelota, Birmingham, Croquet, Edgbaston, First-class cricket, Follis (ball), Frederico Perera, Harry Gem, History of tennis, Lawn Tennis Association, Leamington Spa, Manresa, Palazzo della Pilotta, Pedro Perera, Siena, Tennis, The Field (magazine), Valencian pilota, Walter Clopton Wingfield.

  2. 19th-century Spanish businesspeople
  3. History of tennis
  4. Spanish emigrants to the United Kingdom
  5. Spanish merchants

Augurius of Tarragona

Augurius of Tarragona or Saint Augurius (died 259) was a Christian Hispano-Roman clergyman.

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Basque pelota

Basque pelota (Basque: pilota, Spanish: pelota vasca, French: pelote basque) is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a wall (frontis or fronton) or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Croquet

Croquet is a sport that involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court.

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Edgbaston

Edgbaston is a suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England.

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First-class cricket

First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket.

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Follis (ball)

Follis (a term used in Ancient Rome), or Ball of wind (pilota de vent in Catalan), a term used in the 15th and 16th centuries in Spain and Italy, was a hollow ball inflated with air under pressure, able to jump and bounce when impacting at a certain speed with any solid body.

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Frederico Perera

Frederico Perera (sometimes erroneously written as Frederick Perera) (c. 1836 – 1909) was an English first-class cricketer. Augurio Perera and Frederico Perera are 19th-century English businesspeople and English people of Spanish descent.

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Harry Gem

Major Thomas Henry Gem (21 May 1819 – 4 November 1881), known as Harry Gem, was an English lawyer, soldier, writer and sportsman. Augurio Perera and Harry Gem are British male tennis players, English male tennis players and history of tennis.

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History of tennis

The racket sport traditionally named lawn tennis, invented in Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England, now commonly known simply as tennis, is the direct descendant of what is now denoted real tennis or royal tennis, which continues to be played today as a separate sport with more complex rules.

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Lawn Tennis Association

The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is the national governing body of tennis in Great Britain, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man founded in 1888.

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Leamington Spa

Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or simply LeamingtonEven more colloquially, also referred to as Lem or Leam.

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Manresa

Manresa is the capital of Bages county, located in the central region of Catalonia, Spain.

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Palazzo della Pilotta

The Palazzo della Pilotta is a complex of edifices located between Piazzale della Pace and the Lungoparma in the historical centre of Parma, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy.

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Pedro Perera

Pedro Ricardo Perera (c. 1832 – 1915) was an English first-class cricketer. Augurio Perera and Pedro Perera are 19th-century English businesspeople and English people of Spanish descent.

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Siena

Siena (Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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The Field (magazine)

The Field is a British monthly magazine about country matters and field sports.

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Valencian pilota

Valencian pilota (pilota valenciana "Valencian ball") is a traditional handball sport played in the Valencian Community.

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Walter Clopton Wingfield

Major Walter Clopton Wingfield (16 October 1833 – 18 April 1912) was a Welsh inventor and a British Army officer who was one of the pioneers of lawn tennis. Augurio Perera and Walter Clopton Wingfield are British male tennis players and history of tennis.

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See also

19th-century Spanish businesspeople

History of tennis

Spanish emigrants to the United Kingdom

Spanish merchants

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augurio_Perera