William Cazalet

William Marshall Cazalet (8 July 1865 – 22 October 1932) was a wealthy British landowner who represented Great Britain at the 1908 Olympic Games in jeu de paume (real tennis). Early life Cazalet was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on 8 July 1865. He was the son of Edward Cazalet, merchant and industrialist, and his wife, Elizabeth Sutherland Marshall (d. 1888), daughter and heir of William Marshall, doctor and Danish consul in Edinburgh. Cazalet graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1889. At Oxford, he won a Blue in real tennis (jeu de paume) in 1886, 1887 and 1889, and won the singles in 1889. His father had a real tennis court built for him at Fairlawne, the family home in Shipbourne, Kent. Career Cazalet was a wealthy landowner, with friends including Rudyard Kipling. He served as a Lieutenant in the West Kent Yeomanry Cavalry, and held appointments by the Crown as High Sheriff of Kent, a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Kent. Cazalet represented Great Britain at the 1908 Olympic Games in jeu de paume.