Yachting originally took place on the Thames but the Solent became increasingly important in the 1850s as the steam train made access to the South Coast easy.
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He was a member of the Estcourts of Estcourt, an influential old family, in the counties of Gloucester and Wilts, but born in London, where his father, William Bucknall of Crutched Friars, was Commodore of the Royal Thames Yacht Club.