Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… brought together by their passion for a particular sport – and sometimes by the gambling which this sport made possible. Coffeehouses and inns were popular places in the eighteenth century, and some sporting clubs started their lives in such … tradesmen families from taking part in the proceedings of the Club: John Deards, toyman and silversmith, Roger Williams, coffeeman and vintner, and John Cheny, coffeeman. Williams acquired a high profile as a consequence of Edward Coke having bequeathed him his breeding stock. …
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