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Beddow Cup
The Croquet Association, which was formed as the United All England Croquet Association in 1897, is the national governing body for the sport of croquet in England. Until 1974 the association was responsible for croquet in the whole of the United Kingdom. The Scottish Croquet Association, formed in 1974, now has responsibility for croquet in Scotland. At the 2013 AGM the association formally relinquished control of the game in the other parts of the United Kingdom. Presidents of the association have included Sir Compton Mackenzie, who was President from 1953 to 1966. The association controls the rules of the game, in conjunction with the croquet associations of Australia, New Zealand and the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie .... It also controls the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croquet
Croquet ( or ; french: croquet) is a sport that involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court. Its international governing body is the World Croquet Federation. Variations There are several variations of croquet currently played, differing in the scoring systems, order of shots, and layout (particularly in social games where play must be adapted to smaller-than-standard playing courts). Two forms of the game, association croquet (AC) and golf croquet (GC), have rules that are agreed upon internationally and are played in many countries around the world. The United States has its own set of rules for domestic games. Gateball, a sport that originated in Japan under the influence of croquet, is played mainly in East and Southeast Asia and the Americas, and can also be regarded as a croquet variant. As well as club-level games, there are regular world championships and internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Baring Du Pré
Colonel William Baring du Pré, (5 April 1875 – 23 August 1946) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was a descendant of James Du Pré and likewise lived at Wilton Park, Beaconsfield from 1896 to 1911; the family subsequently moved to Taplow House, Buckinghamshire. Military and Political career Du Pré was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was originally commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps, from which he resigned as a lieutenant. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War, he re-commissioned as a lieutenant in the 47th Company, Imperial Yeomanry, on 21 February 1900. He was captured in the "Yeomanry Disaster" at Lindley in May 1900 and held at Barberton prisoner of war camp. He later commanded the 2/1st Leicestershire Royal Horse Artillery (Territorials) and served on the Western Front 1915–18. He was appointed High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and deputy lieutenant of the county in 1911 (Coronation Medal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Clarke (croquet Player)
Chris Clarke (born 1971 in Lancashire) is an English croquet player who has been ranked among the world's top players since the late 1980s. He now represents New Zealand. Chris has won two World Championships in Association Croquet, in 1995 and again in 2008, six AC World Team Champs and one GC World Team Champs. 2008 was perhaps Chris's finest year, overtaking previous world champions Robert Fulford and Reg Bamford to regain the position of world number one player, which he held for in excess of 16 months. He also reached the semi-finals of thWCF Golf Croquet World Championships in March 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa and led the English team to the finals of th2009 European team championships. Clarke now lives in Christchurch, New Zealand. On 30 January 2008 he was married to Jenny Clarke (née Williams), who plays for New Zealand. The pair were therefore due to be on opposing sides when Great Britain played New Zealand in the 2010 MacRobertson Shield, before Clarke withdrew wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Mulliner
Stephen Mulliner (born 4 September 1953) is an English international croquet player, who has won championships in both major disciplines, Association Croquet (AC) and Golf Croquet (GC). He won the British AC Open Championship in 1988, 1990, and 2000; the British GC Open Championship in 2000, 2001, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016 and 2020; the European GC Championship in 2007, 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2019; and the World AC Championship in 2016. In the 2016 World AC Championships held at the National Croquet Center, West Palm Beach in Florida, he defeated Christian Carter, Stephen Forster, Danny Huneycutt, and Reg Bamford before reaching the final. Bamford, having won the World Championship on four previous occasions, was a favourite to win and took the first two games in the best-of-five match decisively, but Mulliner scraped through in the third game, took the fourth with a sextuple peel that nearly went badly wrong, and then took the fifth game with convincing form. In the final matc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Aspinall
Nigel Aspinall (born 1946) is a croquet player from England. Aspinall was one of the most successful croquet players in the 1970s and 1980s, winning the President's Cup eleven times (1969, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984 and 1985), the Open Championship eight times (1969, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983 and 1984) and the Men's Championship twice (1973 and 1983). Aspinall represented Great Britain in four MacRobertson Shield tournaments, winning on two occasions. In 2007, Aspinall was inducted into the World Croquet Federation The World Croquet Federation (WCF) encourages, promotes and develops the recognised versions of the game of croquet internationally at all levels. National croquet associations around the world are members of the WCF, and the WCF sanctions champio ... Hall of Fame. Career statistics References External linksThe Croquet Records website {{DEFAULTSORT:Aspinall, Nigel 1946 births English croquet players Living people Place of bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Wylie
Keith Francis Wylie (29 March 1945 – 1 November 1999) was a croquet player from England. Keith Wylie won the President's Cup twice (1967 and 1977), the Open Championship twice (1970 and 1971) and the Men's Championship in 1968. Wylie represented Great Britain in two MacRobertson Shield tournaments, winning on both occasions. In 1985, Wylie wrote the definitive book on Croquet Tactics with a second edition appearing in 1991. In 2008, Wylie was inducted into the World Croquet Federation The World Croquet Federation (WCF) encourages, promotes and develops the recognised versions of the game of croquet internationally at all levels. National croquet associations around the world are members of the WCF, and the WCF sanctions champio ... Hall of Fame. Works * ''Expert Croquet Tactics'' (KF Wylie, 1985). * ''Expert Croquet Tactics'' (Eastern Rose Publishing, 1991). . References External linksThe Croquet Records website {{DEFAULTSORT:Wylie, Keith 1945 births 1999 deaths Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Neal
Bernard George Neal (29 March 1922 – 26 March 2016) was a professor of structural engineering at Imperial College London and the winner of the All England croquet championship on 38 occasions. Croquet Bernard Neal won the Open Championship twice (1972 and 1973) and the Men's Championship in 1967. Neal represented England and latterly Great Britain in three MacRobertson Shield tournaments, winning on two occasions. As an administrator, Neal served on the Council of the Croquet Association from 1966 to 2009, serving as Chairman (1972 to 1974), Vice President (1996 to 2004) and President (2004 to 2009). In 2010, Neal was inducted into the World Croquet Federation Hall of Fame. Academic He was elected to the fellowship of The Royal Academy of Engineering in 1980. Selected publications *''Structures and the applied scientist''. University College of Swansea, Swansea, 1955. *''The plastic methods of structural analysis''. Chapman & Hall, 1956. *''Structural theorems and their appli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isobel Roe
Isobel Marion Roe (24 June 1916 – 5 October 1987) was an alpine skier, athletic administrator, teacher, and croquet player. As a skier, she was Great Britain Women's Ski Champion and represented Britain in the World Championships in 1937 and the winter Olympics in 1948. Skiing career Roe gained notoriety in alpine skiing in the years prior to the World War II. She participated in the 1937 Skiing World Championships at Chamonix, France, on 13 February. She finished 10th at 6.47.8. In 1938, she was ranked Great Britain's Women's Ski Champion, a position she would hold throughout the lull during the Second World War, until 1949. In 1939, she again competed in the World Championships, this time in Zakopane, Poland. Roe skied in the Slalom on 15 February, finishing 19th with a time of 375.9, and placed 17th in the Alpine Combined on the same day with a total time of 531.4. At the height of her career, Roe lost years of competition and training to WWII. Following the confl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Warwick
Edith Joan Warwick (13 June 1898 – 4 July 1973) was a croquet and hockey player from England. Miss Warwick won the Women's Championship five times (1960, 1962, 1965, 1966 and 1968) and represented England in the 1963 MacRobertson Shield tournament. Miss Warwick represented England at hockey Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers o ... in the 1930s and captained an English side which toured Australia in 1927 and 1934. References External linksThe Croquet Records site 1898 births 1973 deaths English croquet players English female field hockey players {{England-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hope Rotherham
Hope Rotherham (née Mansell) (6 April 1894 – 26 July 1981) was a croquet player from England. Mrs Eustace Rotherham, as she was known, was one of only three women to have won the Open Championship, winning in 1960. She won the Women's Championship seven times (1952, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1963, 1964 and 1969). As an administrator, Mrs Rotherham served on the Council of the Croquet Association The Croquet Association, which was formed as the United All England Croquet Association in 1897, is the national governing body for the sport of croquet in England. Until 1974 the association was responsible for croquet in the whole of the Unit ... from 1954 to 1981 and was a Vice-President from 1974 to 1981. References External linksThe Croquet Records website {{DEFAULTSORT:Rotherham, Hope 1894 births 1981 deaths English croquet players English sportswomen British sports executives and administrators ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Solomon (croquet Player)
John Solomon (22 November 1931 – 20 October 2014) was a croquet player from England. Solomon dominated English croquet in the 1950s and 1960s winning the President's Cup nine times (1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1968 and 1971), the Open Championship ten times (1953, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968) and the Men's Championship ten times (1951, 1953, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1971 and 1972). Solomon also won the New Zealand Open Championship in 1951 and 1963. Solomon represented England and latterly Great Britain in five MacRobertson Shield tournaments, winning on four occasions. As an administrator Solomon served on the Council of the Croquet Association between 1952 and 2004, serving as Chairman (1962 to 1964), Vice President (1976 to 1982) and President (1982 to 2004). In 2006 Solomon was inducted into the World Croquet Federation The World Croquet Federation (WCF) encourages, promotes and develops the recognised versions of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Cotter (croquet Player)
Edmond Patrick Charles Cotter (24 September 1904 – 8 March 1996) was a croquet player from Ireland. Cotter was one of the most successful croquet players in the 1950s and 1960s winning the President's Cup six times (1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1956 and 1960), the Open Championship three times (1955, 1958 and 1962) and the Men's Championship four times (1952, 1954, 1963 and 1969). He also won the Open Doubles Championship on ten occasions (1954, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1961–1965 and 1969) on each occasion being partnered by John Solomon. Cotter represented England in two MacRobertson Shield tournaments, winning on both occasions. In 2009 Cotter was inducted into the World Croquet Federation Hall of Fame. Cotter was a scholar at Christ Church, Oxford (1923–1927), where he was awarded the 1924 Gaisford Prize The Gaisford Prize is a prize in the University of Oxford, founded in 1855 in memory of Thomas Gaisford, Dr Thomas Gaisford (1779–1855). For most of its history, the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
