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General Date1883-06-04 - 1883-06-09
Tournament typeAmateur
SurfaceGrass
Rounds4
CityCheltenham, Montpellier gardens
CountryEngland

Source Pastime

Info Draw: 10
The event is brought ahead from autumn


https://www.eastglos.co.uk/history/:
The Cheltenham Nomads become East Gloucestershire Club

The club is founded in the early 1880s as a cricket club. Before this date, the players were known as Cheltenham Nomads as they did not have a home ground. In 1883 the cricketers rent the present site and change their name to East Gloucestershire Club. The first recorded match is versus Worcestershire.

How did the name East Gloucestershire Club come about?

In an earlier version of this history, I suggested that the club’s name may have come about to avoid confusion with the West Gloucestershire Cricket Club (WGCC). That name was adopted in 1846 when Mangotsfield Cricket Club merged with WGCC and existed until 1867 when the name was changed to Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. The latter was wound up in March 1871, and its chief officials accepted positions in the hierarchy of Gloucestershire.

Club member Michael Hare, a keen historian, has been in touch with a more plausible explanation.

Michael writes, “I suspect that a major factor in the choice of name was the existence of a parliamentary constituency of East Gloucestershire (returning two members) from 1832 to 1885. There was, of course, also an East Gloucestershire Railway at one stage, though it ran nowhere near Cheltenham. In 1866 and 1872, there was an East Gloucestershire Provident and Friendly Society and Benefit Club. In 1880 there was an East Gloucestershire Lodge of the Good Templary (a temperance movement). In 1870 the North Wilts Herald proclaimed itself (among other things) as the East Gloucestershire, Berkshire, and West of England Advertiser.

“There are probably other examples to be found. Such names will have created a sense of belonging to East Gloucestershire. The choice of the club’s name would have come naturally to the minds of the founders of the club if they had a broad catchment area in mind.”

In May, the club plays a team from the Berkeley Hunt. The fantastically-named newspaper The Cheltenham Looker-On describes the club as having a spacious new ground which has been re-laid, levelled and fenced in. The Berkeley Hunt team includes Dr E. M. Grace, the elder brother of the legendary W. G. Grace.

Report Mens doubles final: Butterworth/Bush-Salmon def. Stewart/Mitton 6-4 6-4 5-6 6-5

Mixed doubles final: Butterworth/Mardall def. Smith/Cole 4-6 6-2 6-2

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Winner Player Donald Charles Stewart


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