FOR most of his professional life, the All England Club took a pretty dim view of Henry Wilfred "Bunny" Austin.
The man in whose footsteps Andy Murray treads today returned to Britain from the United States after World War II to find himself shamefully ostracised from SW19 for the best part of 40 years, ostensibly because his membership had lapsed but in fact because committee members wrongly regarded him as a conscientious objector and disapproved of his proselytising for the Oxford Group, a moral and spiritual movement which later became known as Moral Rearmament.
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