Vane Pennell
Vane Hungerford Pennell was an English rackets and real tennis player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics for Great Britain.Life
Vane Pennell was educated at Eton, Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge.
He won the amateur tennis championship, 1904, and the gold prize at Lords, 1907. In the 1908 Olympics he won the gold medal in the men's doubles competition together with John Jacob Astor. In the men's singles event he lost his first match.
He also competed in the Olympic jeu de paume tournament but was eliminated in the quarter-finals.