Eustace Miles

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Eustace Miles
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Eustace Hamilton Miles (born September 22, 1868 in London , † December 20, 1948 ibid) was a British Jeu de Paume player, non-fiction author and innkeeper .

biography

Eustace Miles was born in the London borough of Hampstead, the son of a bookseller and publisher. He attended Eastbourne College , Marlborough College and King's College Cambridge . In 1906 he married Dorothy Beatrice Harriet Killick . Between 1899 and 1910 he was nine times English amateur champion in Jeu de Paume. In 1900 he became the first non-American to win the US Real Tennis Championship . He was also world champion seven times between 1898 and 1905. In 1908, at the age of 39, he took part in the Jeu de Paume tournament at the Olympic Games in London . In the final he will play against the American George Jay Gould II , whom he had trained in the United States from 1900 to 1902 during his time as Honorary Secretary of the Tuxedo Tennis and Racquet Club . Miles lost to Gould and thus won the silver medal.

Miles authored several books on exercise , diet, and vegetarianism . In 1906 he opened a vegetarian restaurant in Charing Cross, London . He also had two restaurants in the Chelsea and Carshalton districts and also owned health food stores in London. Although his business flourished during World War I , interest diminished over time. Miles eventually went bankrupt and had to sell his property. When he died in the Streatham neighborhood at the age of 80 , he left only £ 175 .

Works

  • Better Food for Boys (1901)
  • The Game of Squash (1901)
  • Avenues to Health (1902)
  • The Failures of Vegetarianism (1902)
  • Daily Training (1903) with Edward Frederic Benson
  • Muscle, Brain, and Diet: A Plea for Simpler Foods (1903)
  • Racquets, tennis, and squash (1903)
  • A Boy's Control and Self-Expression (1904)
  • An Alphabet of Athletics (1904)
  • Breathing for Health, Athletics, and Brain-Work (1904)
  • Cassell's Physical Educator (1904)
  • Diversions Day By Day with Edward Frederic Benson (1905)
  • What Foods Feed Us (1905)
  • The New Cookery of Unproprietary Foods (1906)
  • Life After Life: The Theory of Reincarnation (1907)
  • The Eustace Miles System of Physical Culture With Hints as to Diet (1907)
  • The Training of the Body (1908)
  • The Power of Concentration: How to Acquire It (1909)
  • Fitness for Play and Work (1912)
  • Prevention and Cure (1912)
  • The Uric Acid Fetish (1915) with CH Collings
  • Self-Health as a Habit (1919)
  • Keep Happy (1920)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Miles, Eustace Hamilton (FML887EH). University of Cambridge, accessed April 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Marianne Colloms and Dick Weindling: West Hampstead's tennis world champion (and food fanatic). June 25, 2014, accessed April 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Miles, Eustace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miles, Eustace Hamilton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Jeu De Paume player and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1948
Place of death London , UK