The son of an Irish baron, Wimbledon finalist Vere Thomas St Leger Goold became a murderer
Tennis at Wimbledon is very often a reminder of the sport's genteel past - the players in white outfits, and strawberries and cream for the spectators.
Goold was expected to win but too much alcohol the night before, historians say, put pay to his hopes.In 1891 he married a twice-widowed French woman Madame Marie Giraudin, who also had her own addiction issues. While the Goolds lost all their money at the roulette tables, they thought they had found a meal ticket in Danish widow Emma Levin in 1907.There was a huge public fight with another of Mrs Levin's hangers-on, a Madame Castelazzi, seeking the return of the money.Vere Thomas St Leger Goold was defeated in the 1879 final by the Reverend John Thorneycroft Hartley, pictured
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