Tattersalls Club, Sydney
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Tattersalls Club is a private club founded in 1858 and located on Elizabeth Street, Sydney. The club has a historic connexion to horseracing and sports in colonial New South Wales.
History[edit]
The club was founded at a meeting on 27 July 1858 chaired by the Australian Jockey Club chairman, The Hon. Deas Thomson, with the intention that a dedicated club and meeting space be created for Australian Jockey Club. Prior to the meeting on 27 July 1858, the club had developed organically from a subscription room offered to affluent gambers by William O'Brien, who operated Mayor's Inn at 259 Pitt Street, Sydney. The subscription room was first named 'Tattersalls' in an advertisment published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 13 May 1858. A dedicated space, called 'the Long Room' was created in new premises at 259 Pitt Street in 1860, with the Governor of the Colony, Sir William Denison, in attendance at the inaugural dinner. The first club race appears to have been held at the Autumn season at Randwick Racecourse, with the club providing 150 soverigns to the Australian Jockey Club for the 'Tattersalls Free Handicap'.
The club is subject to a private Act of Parliment passed in 1888.[1]
Sport[edit]
In June 1858, the club first raised money for sporting activities when its members raised funds to provide the English heavyweight boxer Tom Sayers with a silver goblet filled with colonial sovereigns. The club was historically a contributor to the Olympic Games Fund for Australia.
The club often hosted the English Rugby Union and England & Wales Cricket Team during the 18th and 20th century. The club hosted the English aviatrix Amy Johnson on 7 June 1930 following her historic flight from England to Australia.[2]
A number of Tattersalls members have represented Australia at the Olympic Games, with some holding medals and world records.[3]
Membership[edit]
Members of the club must be proposed and seconded by current club members.
Notable past members of the club have included:[2]
Warwick Armstrong (Captain of the Australian test team between 1920 and 1921);
Sir Frank Beaurepaire (Olympic swimmer, Lord Mayor of Melbourne, member of the Victorian Legislative Council and businessman);
Reginald Leslie "Snowy" Baker (Olympic athlete, sports promoter, and actor);
Henry Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden (Governor of New South Wales 1895 - 1899)
William Bede Dalley PC (Politician, Privy Councilor, acting Premier of NSW and barrister);
Richard Driver (Member of New South Wales Legislative Assembly and founding trustee of the Sydney Cricket Ground);
William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp KG, KCMG, CB, KStJ, PC, (Governor of New South Wales 1899 - 1901);
Samuel Hordern KBE (proprietor of Anthony Hordern & Sons);
Ernest Cavill and Richmond (Dick) Theophilus Cavill (credited with developing the Front Crawl/Australian Crawl swimming stroke);
Sir Walter Edward Davidson, KCMG, KStJ (Governor of New South Wales 1859 - 1923);
Brigadier General John Lamrock, CB, VD;
Douglas Jardine (Captained the English cricket team during the 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia);
William Kendall (Olympic swimmer);
John Konrads (Olympic Swimmer)
Walter Lindrum OBE (accomplished billiards player);
Prof Frank Cotton (inventor of the airplane G-Suit);
John Davies (Olympic swimmer and United States district judge);
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, then Prince Philip of Greece (temporary member when in-port in Sydney, while serving on HMS Ramillies);
References[edit]
- ↑ "View - NSW legislation". legislation.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Anderson, Joseph (1983). Tattersalls Club, Sydney 1858 - 1983. Koorana Ltd (distributed by Tattersalls Club). Search this book on
- ↑ "Tattersall's Club Sydney". FromMelbin. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
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