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BOAT/A/2/9.1-2 · Item · 1892-1911
Part of Trinity College Boat Club records

Minutes of meetings and records of races from October 1892 to February 1911. The minutes include lists of resident members, descriptions of Trinity, university, and national regattas, and mentions of the May Ball. There is a partial index at front and cuttings pasted in and laid in loose, including bumps charts that have been filled in, and one bumps chart made by hand for the 1898 races. There are several appeal letters: to purchase the land on which the Boat House sat, Feb. 1896; to publish the history of the club by W. W. Rouse Ball, and to cover expenses in the wake of the cancellation of the Ball in 1910 due to the death of the king, and unexpected works costs required by the city.

Recording Secretaries: Thornycroft Donaldson, R. W. Broadrick, Lightly Simpson, J. Field Beale, Edward G. M. Gibson (for a term), Gerard A. Crane, Harold U. Gould, Clement J. M. Adie, R. H. Sanderson, Geoffrey Parker, Francis W. Odgers, Kenneth V. Elphinstone, Samuel R. Beale, Douglas Spicer, A. Lyndon Lawrence, Edward S. Moore, William D. Barratt, J. S. Burn, A. Close Brooks, Gerald B. Lloyd, J. Walmsley, A. Lionel Drew, Maurice Daffarn, E. D. Clark, Eric Donaldson, and Ralph S. Shove.

BOAT/F/2/1 · Item · 1891-1901
Part of Trinity College Boat Club records

Accounts for the balls held on 19 June 1891, 16 June 1892 (with notes for Rylands' successor), 14 June 1893, 14 June 1894, 12 June 1895, 15 June 1896, 16 June 1897, 14 June 1898, 13 June 1899, 11 June 1900, and 11 June 1901. The accounts consist of names of attendees with the name of Trinity member providing the voucher, with cost of tickets per party. A summary of expenses appears at the end of each year's list. The Honorary Secretaries were Arthur G. Johnson, William P. Rylands, Stuart Downs, Herbert W. D. Goff, Lightly S. Simpson, Harold G. Brown and Herbert A. Game, Gerard A. Crane, Gerald W. Sharpe, Lucius F. Crane, and Eric S. Hervey.

Two letters are laid in loose: one dated c 1914 from Pelham Foster to W. W. Rouse Ball in which he states he is returning the Ball books and that he saw R. S. Shove in London, who had been wounded in the war; the other from H. W. D. Goff to someone who has agreed to be Ball Steward dated 10 Feb. 1893.