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Line 21: Thomas Land (1714–18 June 1791)<ref>Death date given in this newspaper: {{cite news| title = Home News | newspaper = Hampshire Chronicle/British Newspaper Archive | page = 3 | location = Winchester | date = 27 June 1791}}</ref> seems to have withdrawn from the scene in about 1764. It is believed the Hambledon Club proper was formed not long afterwards.<ref name=GDC/> Land was interested in hunting and maintained a pack of hounds that earned him recognition as "one of the most celebrated fox-hunters in Great-Britain".<ref>{{cite news| title = Died | newspaper = Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette/British Newspaper Archive | page = 4 | location = Bath | date = 30 June 1791}}</ref> Land is mentioned in the ''Hambledon Club Song'' written by Reverend [[Reynell Cotton]] in 1767.<ref>{{cite news |last1=F. S. |first1=Ashley-Cooper |title=The Hambledon Cricket Chronicle |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001578/19230908/093/0020 |access-date=7 April 2021 |work=Illustrated London News |date=8 September 1923 |page=20 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |archive-date=23 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240923134232/https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/account/register?countrykey=0&showgiftvoucherclaimingoptions=false&gift=false&nextpage=%2faccount%2flogin%3freturnurl%3d%252fviewer%252fbl%252f0001578%252f19230908%252f093%252f0020&rememberme=false&cookietracking=false&partnershipkey=0&newsletter=false&offers=false®isterreason=none&showsubscriptionoptions=false&showcouponmessaging=false&showfreetrialmessaging=false&showregisteroptions=false&showloginoptions=false&showcaptchaerrormessage=false&isonlyupgradeable=false |url-status=live }}</ref> Apparently, Cotton was not too concerned about Land having left the club: :::::''Then why should we fear either Sackville or Mann,'' Line 38: ==Broadhalfpenny Down to Windmill Down== [[File:HambledonCC.jpg|thumb|right|Monument to Hambledon Cricket Club at Broadhalfpenny Down]] In 1782 the club moved from its original ground at [[Broadhalfpenny Down]] to [[Windmill Down]], about half a mile away towards the village of Hambledon. The [[Bat and Ball Inn]] had been requisitioned as a munitions dump by the military, and Windmill Down provided as an alternative. However, after a couple of seasons playing on the steep sloping and highly exposed new ground the club agitated for a move to a more suitable location and Ridge Meadow was purchased as a permanent replacement. Ridge Meadow is still the home of Hambledon C.C. today.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History - Hambledon Cricket Club|url=https://www.hambledoncricketclub.co.uk/history/|access-date=2020-09-04|website=www.hambledoncricketclub.co.uk|archive-date=4 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704185334/https://www.hambledoncricketclub.co.uk/history/|url-status=live}}</ref> ==Hambledon to Marylebone== Hambledon's great days ended in the 1780s with a shift in focus from the rural counties of [[Kent]], [[Sussex]] and [[Hampshire]] to metropolitan [[London]] where [[Lord's]] was established as the home of the new [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] in 1787. However, for the decade up to 1793, Hambledon remained a meeting place for like-minded Royal Navy Officers such as Captains [[Erasmus Gower]], [[Robert Calder]], [[Charles Powell Hamilton]], Mark Robinson, Sir [[Hyde Parker (Royal Navy officer, born 1739)|Hyde Parker]] and [[Robert Linzee]]. In May 1791 [[Lord Hugh Seymour]] became president of the club but soon afterwards these officers all returned to sea.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bates|first1=Ian M|title=Champion of the Quarterdeck: Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower (1742-1814)|publisher=Sage Old Books|isbn=9780958702126|page=155 Membership declined during the 1790s. On 29 August 1796, fifteen people attended a meeting and amongst them, according to the official minutes, was "Mr Thos Pain, Authour of the rights of Man"! It was certainly a joke for [[Thomas Paine]] was then in France, having left England in 1792 shortly before being convicted of seditious libel in absentia. The last meeting was held on 21 September 1796 where the minutes read only that "No [[gentleman|Gentlemen]] were present".<ref name="Bowen1970">{{cite book|last=Bowen, Roland|title=Cricket: a history of its growth and development: throughout the world|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_OBAAAAMAAJ|access-date=8 May 2011|year=1970|publisher=Eyre & Spottiswoode}}</ref> Line 75: {{DEFAULTSORT:Hambledon Club}} [[Category:Club cricket teams in England]] [[Category:Former senior cricket clubs of England]] [[Category:English cricket teams in the 18th century]] [[Category:Sports clubs and teams established in the 1760s]] [[Category:Cricket in Hampshire]] | |||