Catalogue description ROYAL CHESTER ROWING CLUB

This record is held by Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Details of ZCR 419
Reference: ZCR 419
Title: ROYAL CHESTER ROWING CLUB
Description:

Minutes, correspondence and scrap books.
Date: 1843-1976
Related material:

For the history of the first hundred years of the club, see J V S Glass and J Max Patrick, The Royal Chester Rowing Club Centenary History 1838-1938, 1939.
Held by: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Royal Chester Rowing Club
Physical description: 5 files
Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was deposited in the Chester City Record Office on 21 July 1983 by W J C Todd, esq., of the Royal Chester Rowing Club, 21 Dee Fords Avenue, Chester.
Subjects:
  • Chester, Cheshire
Administrative / biographical background:

The club was founded, as the Chester Victoria Rowing Club, in May 1838. The title 'Royal Chester Rowing Club' was conferred on the club at the end of June 1840. Royal patronage had been granted to the club through the assistance of Lord Robert Grosvenor (later Lord Ebury).

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