Person who invented badminton

Obviously, Baldwin's first game will have been played without any court markings as we know them - and probably with none at all. We can presume, probably correctly, that the whole floor of the salon at Badminton House was fair territory.

Whether an actual net was available seems also most unlikely. Probably, the "net" consisted of a taut piece of string with newspapers hung over it to a depth of the newspaper's size.

It may also be that several played on each side, and that their number was limited only by the number of battledores available in the house. The latter is no idle dream because it is known that in the early days of Badminton up to five on each side was quite regularly the number, even after properly constituted clubs had been formed.

We are pleased to be able to produce a copy of a photograph of John Loraine Baldwin, to give him his full names. It is a very old picture taken in ,several years before his game of Badminton. Our block is made from an original print pasted into a book called "The Canterbury Cricket Week" published and compiled by William Davey at Canterbury,Kent, in Its lack of clarity must be due to its age of years, and it was obviously taken not long after photography was invented. Baldwin was a prominent figure in midth century London, and he can best be described as one of the gentry of the day.

He was born as long ago as , and later became a friend of the Prince of Wales later King Edward VII and numerous other titled persons in the social whirl of Victorian England. He was "handsome, kindly and dignified". Nothing is known about his early years, but in he was one of a small band, keen on acting, who formed that amateur society later called "The Old Stagers" who became so well known - indeed famous - for their annual performances on the stage during the Canterbury Cricket Week which was inaugurated that year.

The Week still exists, and so do the Old Stagers, amongst whom Baldwin took many prominent parts for some twenty-odd years. Baldwin was also clearly a keen cricketer, but he was not particularly skilful at the game, probably deriving his liking for it from the sociable side, but he has gone down in Cricket fame as one of the four founders of the famous I Zingari , the very first of the wandering cricket clubs, in In , the International Badminton Federation was set up in the UK and became badminton's first international governing body.

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