Dean Mathey

Dean Mathey (1919)

Dean Mathey (born November 23, 1890 in New York , † April 16, 1972 in Princeton , New Jersey ) was an American stockbroker , tennis player and sponsor of Princeton University .

Life

Mathey began studying at Princeton University in 1908 . After graduation in 1912, he worked as a bond dealer on Wall Street for the investment firm William A. Read & Co. and later became a partner in the successor Dillon, Read & Co. , an important American investment bank well into the 1960s . He made a great fortune through his work.

In 1927, Mathey bought an old farm in Princeton, which he had modernized under the guidance of a college friend, the architect Arthur Holden . He then devoted himself to promoting Princeton University, where he held various management positions; inter alia as a member of the Board of Trustees and as chairman of the finance committee. He died in 1972 at the age of 81.

Tennis career

Mathey was an excellent tennis player. In 1907 he won a tournament at Princeton University, in 1910 and 1911 the double title of the university championships ( National Intercollegiate Championships ). In 1908 he advanced to the second round of the US championships , and two years later he reached the quarter-finals there. In 1914 Dean moved together with George Church in the double finals of the US championships, but had to admit defeat there Maurice McLoughlin and Thomas Bundy .

In 1919 he was able to advance to the round of 16 at the Wimbledon tournament , but in his second appearance there in 1922 he was eliminated in the second round against Henri Cochet .

Sources and web links

Commons : Dean Mathey  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Alexander Leitch: A Princeton Companion. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1978. ISBN 978-0-691-04654-9 . ( Excerpt )
• Dean Mathey. tennisarchives.com, accessed on April 18, 2013 (English).