Sportsman and profligate bon vivant, a life-style enabled through his vast inherited wealth. President of the National Sporting Club. Initiated the boxing prize, the Lonsdale Belt. Founder and first president of the Automobile Association, which adopted his favourite colour, yellow. WW1 he was a recruitment officer of both men and horses. After the war he became a senior steward of the Jockey Club and the first president of the International Horse Show at Olympia. Died at home, Stud House, near Leicester. The picture source provides an interesting profile of this larger than life character.
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Hugh Cecil Lowther, fifth Earl of Lonsdale
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National Sporting Club
This building was once known as the National Sporting Club, March 1891 - Octo...
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Rita Leggatt
Rita Sylvia Smith was born on 13 January 1926 the daughter of Francis Albert Smith (1888-1957) and Annie Smith née Turner (1892-1957). Her birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1926 in the Edm...
2 memorials
Albert Charles Starr
Mayor of Bermondsey 1929-1930 and then for a period of 3 terms during WW2: 1941-44. Our photo shows a group of officials from the United States during their tour of the Civil Defence Services at B...
2 memorials
Councillor T. F. H. French
Member of Housing Committee, Diss Street 1922. Aldermen and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926. Councillor and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926.
1 memorial
1 memorial
James Leslie Hicks Eytle
James Leslie Hicks Eytle was born on 3 August 1922 in British Guiana (now Guyana), the fourth of the seven children of James Alexander Eytle (1882-1956) and Gertrude Caroline Viola Eytle née Hicks ...
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