Created when delegates from 22 clubs met at the Pall Mall Restaurant and rules were drawn up based on those of Rugby School.
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Rugby Football Union
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Tom Sayers
Boxer Born Pimlico. Worked as a bricklayer building King's Cross Station. Became the first "world champion" boxer. Defeated only once, in a fight that lasted 61 rounds. His 1860 fight with t...
2 memorials
Geoff Hurst
Football player and manager. Born Geoffrey Charles Hurst in the Lake Hospital, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. He played principally for West Ham United and England and went on to manage Telford Uni...
2 memorials
Walter Clopton Wingfield
Born at Rhysnant Hall, Montgomeryshire, Wales. Served in the 1st Dragoon Guards, and saw action in China and India. In the late 1860s he began experimenting with an outdoor version of real tennis. ...
Person, Armed Forces, Food & Drink, Sport / Games, China/Hong Kong, India, Wales
1 memorial
Kensington Hippodrome
A horse race course built by entrepreneur John Whyte. It was not a success partly because the clay ground was not suitable and partly because the local population (slum-dwellers, basically) unlike ...
2 memorials
First cricket test match in England
Played between national teams, test matches are the longest and considered to be the highest standard. The first 3 officially recognised test matches took place in in Melbourne, Australia, in: 1877...
1 memorial