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Meredith Colket
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<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2> <p>Colket was born on November 19, 1878, in Philadelphia. He graduated from the <a href="/facts/University_of_Pennsylvania/LBBBULox">University of Pennsylvania</a> with a B.S. degree in 1901 and a LL.B degree in 1904. He was a member of <a href="/facts/Phi_Gamma_Delta/dbSnl1WV">Phi Gamma Delta</a> and the varsity track team for all four of his undergraduate years. Colkert finished second in the pole jump at the British <a href="/facts/1900_AAA_Championships/yNfCQHBY">1900 AAA Championships</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p><p>He organized the first <a href="/facts/Tennis/GwVaWdn0">tennis</a> team at Penn and won second place at the intercollegiate tennis doubles championship in 1902. He worked as an <a href="/facts/Lawyer/SETgVQHu">attorney</a> for the General Accident Fire & Life Insurance Corporation and continued to play tennis at the <a href="/facts/Merion_Cricket_Club/FYrm9VbH">Merion Cricket Club</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> He married Alberta Kelsey on April 12, 1911, in London.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <p>He died of a heart attack at his home in <a href="/facts/Bryn_Mawr,_Pennsylvania/Y2LDdLof">Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania</a>, on June 7, 1947,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> and was interred at <a href="/facts/Laurel_Hill_Cemetery/1cB9hWwC">Laurel Hill Cemetery</a> in Philadelphia.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p><p>Colket's son, Meredith B. Colket Jr. (1912–1985), was a noted <a href="/facts/Genealogy/vIAYr85a">genealogist</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F00716FB3B5A147B93CBA9178DD85F438485F9">New York Times obituary, June 9, 1947 (subscription required)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060819150807/http://www.phigam.org/history/Lists/olympics.htm">Phi Gamma Delta in the Olympics</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/CM16/overview">Meredith Colket</a> at the <a href="/facts/Association_of_Tennis_Professionals/156Psd62">Association of Tennis Professionals</a><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53373#P536"> </a></li> <li><a href="https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78247">Meredith Colket</a> at <a href="/facts/Olympedia/dE2x9aLq">Olympedia</a><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53373#P8286"> </a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Meredith Colket". Olympedia. Retrieved 24 December 2020. <a href="https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78247" target="_blank">https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78247</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Meredith Bright Colket". archives.upenn.edu. Retrieved November 7, 2021. <a href="https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/meredith-bright-colket" target="_blank">https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/meredith-bright-colket</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 30 July 2024. <a href="https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm" target="_blank">https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"The Amateur Athletic Association Championships". Sporting Life. 9 July 1900. Retrieved 30 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive. <a href="https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000893/19000709/019/0001" target="_blank">https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000893/19000709/019/0001</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Meredith Bright Colket". www.archives.upenn.edu. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 24 July 2021. <a href="https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/meredith-bright-colket" target="_blank">https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/meredith-bright-colket</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"The Lafayette Negative Archive". www.lafayette.org.uk. Retrieved 24 July 2021. <a href="http://lafayette.org.uk/col4757.html" target="_blank">http://lafayette.org.uk/col4757.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Meredith Bright Colket". www.archives.upenn.edu. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 24 July 2021. <a href="https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/meredith-bright-colket" target="_blank">https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/meredith-bright-colket</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Meredith B Colket". remembermyjourney.com. webCemeteries. Retrieved 18 December 2024. <a href="https://remembermyjourney.com/memorials/meredith-b-colket?id=azxm82Qn" target="_blank">https://remembermyjourney.com/memorials/meredith-b-colket?id=azxm82Qn</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"Colket, Meredith Bright Jr". www.case.edu. Case Western Reserve University. 11 May 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2021. <a href="https://case.edu/ech/articles/c/colket-meredith-bright-jr" target="_blank">https://case.edu/ech/articles/c/colket-meredith-bright-jr</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>