#1810

4 incidents tagged

Thomas Lord Secures the St John's Wood Site — December 1810

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1810-12-14

On 14 December 1810 Thomas Lord signed the lease on a seven-acre site on St John's Wood Road that would, four years later, become the third and final Lord's Cricket Ground. The lease — for an initial 80 years from the Eyre Estate — was negotiated as insurance against the increasingly likely loss of the Middle Ground at North Bank. The site Lord secured in December 1810 has hosted cricket continuously ever since.

#regency-cricket#underarm#thomas-lord

⭐Mild

Final Match at Dorset Square — The Original Lord's Closes, May 1810

MCC vs Middlesex

1810-05-08

On 8 May 1810 the MCC played Middlesex on the original Lord's ground at Dorset Square — the last major match on the site Thomas Lord had opened in 1787. The Portman Estate's notice to terminate, served in October 1808, took effect at the close of play. The Dorset Square ground was given over to building work within weeks; cricket at Lord's continued at the new Middle Ground at North Bank.

#regency-cricket#underarm#thomas-lord

⭐Mild

George 'Squire' Osbaldeston's Major-Match Debut — MCC v Middlesex, June 1810

MCC vs Middlesex

1810-06-21

On 21-22 June 1810 George Osbaldeston — the Yorkshire baronet who would become the most flamboyant amateur sportsman of the Regency — made his major-match cricket debut for MCC against Middlesex at the new Middle Ground. He was twenty-three, already famous for his hunting and his pugilism, and over the next decade he would establish himself as the fastest underarm bowler in England and the only serious rival to Lord Frederick Beauclerk.

#regency-cricket#underarm#george-osbaldeston

🥊Moderate

William Lambert Beats Lord Frederick Beauclerk by Bowling Wides — Single-Wicket, 1810

Lord Frederick Beauclerk / Thomas Howard vs George Osbaldeston / William Lambert

1810-07-01

A two-a-side single-wicket challenge match for fifty guineas a side became one of the most discussed cricket incidents of the early 1810s when Squire Osbaldeston fell ill on the morning of play. His partner William Lambert, the Surrey professional, pleaded for a postponement; Lord Frederick Beauclerk replied with the gambler's formula 'Play or Pay'. Lambert went out alone to face Beauclerk and Thomas Howard, deliberately bowled a string of wide deliveries to fluster Beauclerk, broke the cleric's temper and his concentration, and won the match by fifteen runs. The incident produced the rivalry that would shape Lambert's downfall seven years later.

#william-lambert#lord-frederick-beauclerk#george-osbaldeston