Birmingham......'The Home of Tennis'!

The Grave of the inventor of Lawn Tennis Now Major Harry Gem was found in Warstone Lane Cemetery in 2013. Robert Holland, a local tennis historian is hoping to commemorate the role that Major Harry Gem played in the growth of Lawn Tennis in Birmingham and the wider world with a small monument to Gem at Warstone Lane Cemetery as the founder of Lawn Tennis in Edgbaston, Birmingham which is the home of Lawn Tennis.

Birmingham Warstone Lane Cemetery, also called Brookfield Cemetery.

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Warstone Lane Cemetery, also called Brookfield Cemetery, Mint Cemetery or Church of England Cemetery, was built in 1847.