Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… Collection, B1981.25.629, c. 1722. This is the context in which The Jockey Club came into existence. It is mentioned in print in 1752 but some historians (Huggins, Nash, Nichol) have shown that it was already in existence in the 1720s and … perhaps earlier. Received opinion was for a long time that the club was formed some time in 1751 because of a mention in print of a meeting of the Club in the Autumn of 1751 ( General Advertiser , November 19, 1751). But mentions of The …
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