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Sylvia Lance Sylvia Lance [b.1895 - ?] was a long-term resident of Strathfield. She won the Australian Women’s Open Championship in 1924 and was runner-up to the title in 1927 and 1930. She won the Australian Open Women’s Doubles with Esna Boyd in 1923 and with Daphne Akhurst in 1924 and 1925. Lance also won the Mixed Doubles in 1923 with Horace Rice. She married Robert Harper in 1924, a colonel in the army. After her marriage, she continued to play competitive tennis. Her last known title is 1930 as runner up at the Australian Open in the category of women’s singles.
Sylvia was the daughter of Charles Carey Lance [1859-1934], an engineer and Louisa Fuller, a singer and artist. Charles Lance migrated to South Africa from England in 1879 and established a food produce business in Burghersdorp, a district of Cape Colony. In 1890, he married Louisa Christie Fuller and moved to NSW and bought the Euroa flour mills. Lance is noted as a pioneer of dairy manufacture in Victoria. In 1894, he was appointed general manager NSW Creamery Butter Co. and Fresh Food and Ice Co. At this time he moved to Strathfield. The family lived at ‘Hillcrest’ 26-28 Woodward Avenue [c.1897-1905], Steephurst 22-24 Albyn Rd Strathfield [1917-1922] and then ‘High Lodge’ The Boulevarde [now demolished]. Lance was appointed commission agent for NSW in London 1902-06 and appointed commissioner Sydney Harbour Trust 1907 and President in 1913. Lance lived at ‘High Lodge’ until his death in 1934. Sylvia Lance [later Sylvia Lance Harper] Tennis Titles
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This article was written by Cathy Jones, 2005
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