Nathaniel William "Nat" Niles (July 5, 1886 – July 11, 1932) was an Americantennis player andfigure skater who competed insingle skating,pair skating, andice dancing between 1914 and 1932. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Brookline, Massachusetts.[3]
Nathaniel W. Niles also excelled at tennis, and was inducted into the New England Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000. While a student at Harvard, he was an NCAA champion for the sport. He competed in 23 successiveU.S. National Championships.[4] WithEdith Rotch, he won the 1908 mixed doubles title, and in 1917, he reached the singles final, losing toRobert Lindley Murray in four sets. He also reached the semifinals in 1913 and the quarterfinals in 1904, 1911 and 1918.
Niles died in 1932 at the age of 46. His last figure skating competition, with Blanchard, had been the pairs event at the1932 World Figure Skating Championships earlier the same year.