1. Bertrand Milbourne Clark was an all-round, amateur Jamaican sportsman, who excelled in golf, cricket and tennis, and was the first black person to compete at Wimbledon, in 1924.
11 Facts About Bertrand Clark
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Bertrand Clark was descended from Thomas Milbourne Clark, his great grandfather, and Eleanor Fitzgerald, who married in 1824.
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Bertrand Clark was educated at Kingston High School and then Jamaica College.
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Bertrand Clark represented his school at high jump at the first Inter-Secondary Schools Championship Sports at Sabina Park in 1910, where he came first.
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Bertrand Clark subsequently became known in Jamaica as a top golfer.
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Bertrand Clark played for Melbourne Cricket Club alongside his brother Ronald.
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Bertrand Clark served as Secretary of the Jamaica Golf Association from 1941 to 1951.
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Bertrand Clark beat the American Tally Holmes to take the American Tennis Association title, for African American players, in 1920.
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From 1911, Bertrand Clark worked as a civil servant, retiring as medical secretary of the Island Medical Office.
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Bertrand Clark was listed in the Jamaican Who's Who for 1946.
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An obituary was published in the Sunday Gleaner, which said that Bertrand Clark was "perhaps the greatest all-round Jamaican sportsman of our time".