#1818

6 incidents tagged

George Osbaldeston Banned from MCC — A Squire's Twenty-Year Exile, 1818 onwards

MCC

1820-05-01

After being beaten at single-wicket by Sussex's George Brown in 1818, the all-round sportsman Squire George Osbaldeston resigned his MCC membership in a fury. When he later sought to be reinstated, his application was blocked personally by Lord Frederick Beauclerk; despite intercession by E.H. Budd and others, Osbaldeston was barred from MCC for the rest of his cricket career, an exile that effectively confined him to second-tier matches throughout the 1820s.

#george-osbaldeston#squire-osbaldeston#mcc

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Osbaldeston Witnesses the Tom Cribb Prize-Fight — Inter-Sport Crossing, 1818

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1818-04-07

On 7 April 1818, two months before the cricket season opened, George Osbaldeston attended Tom Cribb's prize-fight exhibition on Hounslow Heath alongside Lord Byron and the bare-knuckle champion's other backers. Osbaldeston himself stripped briefly to spar three rounds with Cribb's understudy. The episode is a piece of the Regency cross-discipline sporting culture and a glimpse of cricket's place within a wider sporting elite.

#regency-cricket#underarm#george-osbaldeston

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Squire Osbaldeston's Pedestrian Wager Between Cricket Matches — November 1818

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1818-11-05

In November 1818, between his cricket and hunting seasons, George Osbaldeston walked 200 miles in 36 hours on Newmarket Heath for a wager of 1,000 guineas. The feat — completed inside the time, with Osbaldeston resting only twice — was reported across the sporting press and is the most famous of his many cross-disciplinary athletic exploits. It is a piece of the Regency sporting culture that linked cricket to pedestrianism, prize-fighting and turf.

#regency-cricket#underarm#george-osbaldeston

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Lord's Pitch Relaid for the First Time — Spring 1818

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1818-04-12

In April 1818 the MCC commissioned the first systematic relaying of the Lord's pitch since the ground's 1814 opening. The strip — laid hastily four years earlier on rough St John's Wood pasture — had been giving uneven bounce and cracking through the 1817 season. The April 1818 work, supervised by the head groundsman Steed, marked the beginning of organised cricket-pitch management at Lord's and the first investment in the playing surface as a distinct asset.

#regency-cricket#underarm#lords

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Squire Osbaldeston Resigns From MCC and Is Barred for Life — 1818

MCC committee vs George Osbaldeston

1818-08-01

After losing a single-wicket match to Lord Frederick Beauclerk in 1818 in circumstances that he believed were rigged against him, the Yorkshire squire George Osbaldeston resigned from the Marylebone Cricket Club in a fit of temper. When he tried to rejoin some months later he found the door barred: Beauclerk, on the committee, refused his readmission. E.H. Budd's attempted intercession failed. Osbaldeston, one of the leading all-round sportsmen of the age, never played senior cricket of any standing again.

#george-osbaldeston#lord-frederick-beauclerk#mcc

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Eton v Harrow — The Lord's Rematch That Restarted the Annual Fixture, 1818

Eton College vs Harrow School

1818-07-30

Thirteen years after the inaugural 1805 meeting at Thomas Lord's old ground in Dorset Square — the match in which Lord Byron had played for Harrow with a runner — Eton and Harrow met again at the new Lord's at St John's Wood in July 1818. The rematch restarted what would, from 1822, become the longest-running annual schoolboy fixture in cricket. By the late nineteenth century Eton v Harrow at Lord's was one of the great social occasions of the London summer.

#eton#harrow#public-schools