Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… Cricket Club, T03031, 1779. Image Peter Tillemans, 'The Round Course at Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, Preparing for the King's Plate', Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1981.25.629, c. 1722. Image (After) Robert Dighton, … Star and Garter was the first cricket club, it is best seen as a meeting place for noblemen and gentlemen, who were looking to organise the rules of the games, rather than as a formal sports club. 2 'Cricket Match Played by the Countess of … started to develop in England in the seventeenth century. It became an organised sport during the reign of James I. The king paid frequent visits to the village of Newmarket because he enjoyed hunting and hawking ; his court, in particular …
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