Ernest George Meers

Meers was born in Kingsnorth, near Ashford, Kent. He earned a Bachelor of Music from Queen's College, Oxford and was later chairman and managing director of Watts Ltd, gummakers.^[6] He married Eliza Rose, daughter of Captain Henry Douglas-Hart of the Madras Army, who was assassinated while serving in India in 1858. They had three sons and two daughters who survived him.^[7]

His played first tournament at the North of England Championships in Scarborough in 1884 going out in the round of 16.^[8] He reached his first final at Sittingbourne in 1885 losing to Ernest Wool Lewis.^[9] Meers played at the Wimbledon Championships between 1890 and 1895, reaching the quarterfinals of the all-comers competition in 1894 and the semifinals in 1895.^[10] He reached the semifinals of the U.S. National Championships in 1889 and won the British Covered Court Championships in 1892.^[11] His other singles successes included winning the British Covered Court Championships indoors on hard wood courts in 1891.^[12] He won the Kent Championships on grass three times (1888, 1890–91).^[13] In addition he also won three titles at the Essex Championships (1887–88, 1890) and the Chingford Open (1888), the Middlesex Championships onetime in 1891.^[14] He played his last tournament at the British Covered Court Championships in 1896 going out in the quarter-finals.^[15]