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7 unusual facts about Thomas Lord


Havell family

Born 1828 Reading; married Charlotte Amelia Lord (granddaughter of Thomas Lord) 1855; died 1892 Caversham.

The Green Man and Still

The Green Man and Still was a tavern in Oxford Street, London, much favoured during the 18th & 19th centuries by cricketers - such as William Beldham, Tom Walker and David Harris - playing at Thomas Lord's grounds nearby, and not surprisingly, also patronised by the leading bookmakers of the day.

Thomas Lord

His father was a Roman Catholic yeoman, who had his lands sequestered for supporting the Jacobite rising in 1745 and afterwards he had to work as a labourer.

In 1786 Lord was approached by George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea, and Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, who were the leading members of the White Conduit Club.

Derek Birley, A Social History of English Cricket, Aurum, 1999.

His son, also Thomas Lord, and born in Marylebone on 27 December 1794, was also a first-class cricketer.

Samuel Britcher, A list of all the principal Matches of Cricket that have been played (1790 to 1805).



see also

GNU arch

The original author and maintainer of GNU arch was Thomas Lord who started the project in 2001.

Wisley

His son died in 1674, and in 1677 it was sold to Denzil Onslow — it passed under his will, after his widow's death in 1729, to Thomas Lord Onslow, and early in the 19th century it was exchanged for the manor of Papworth in Send, Surrey with Lord King, whose main descendant, a third earl, (see Earl of Lovelace) owned it, as his family did Ockham, in the early 20th century.