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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 228

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ord as its founder. There is a Swafiham Clubat this present day, but it is only a recent name-.sake of the old association, though coursing overthe very same ground. Coursing clubs quicklybecame the fashion, after the foundation of theSwaffham Club, and one of the earliest wasAshdown, in Berkshire,… … long ago dropped out of existence, whilst thesplendid open meetings which followed—fre-quently lasting over a week—have almost dwin-dled away. The numberless coursing dubs that at onetime or other in the latter part of the last and inthe present century were in existence, are,with very few…

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