Created when delegates from 22 clubs met at the Pall Mall Restaurant and rules were drawn up based on those of Rugby School.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Rugby Football Union
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Ebenezer Cobb Morley
Born Hull and moved to Barnes in 1858. Â Keen rower and footballer and for both sports he founded, played and officiated in clubs in the Barnes and Mortlake area. He proposed the founding of the Foo...
1 memorial
Leander Club
From Leander Club: "Leander Club is the home of rowing and the most historic, prestigious and successful rowing club in the world, its athletes having won 138 Olympic and Paralympic medals since 19...
1 memorial
Thomas William Callinan
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Olympic Games - 1948
The 1948 Summer Olympics were the first Summer Olympics held since the 1936 Games in Berlin. The second time London had hosted, 1908 being the first. The 1948 Olympics came to be known as the "Aus...
1 memorial
Chris Brasher
Athlete and journalist. Born Christopher William Brasher in Georgetown, Guyana. He was one of the pacemakers for Roger Bannister when he broke the four-minute mile barrier in 1954. He pioneered the...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Sport / Games, South America
1 memorial
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