A unique record mainly of cricket and association football matches played by Westminster School at Vincent Square, also Winchester College and Oxford

A unique record mainly of cricket and association football matches played by Westminster School at Vincent Square, also Winchester College and Oxford University Colleges (and other cricket teams) from 1874 to 1881, a notebook, approx. 48 pages, containing newspaper reports, with observations, dated and titled in pen and ink, the front & back listing the teams and results of football matches, compiled by Herbert C. Benbow (born 1862) Westminster 1875/1880 with John Edward Benbow Winchester College 1876/77, Merton College Oxford 1878/79, W L Benbow (born 1863), Westminster 1877/1881; the book also containing six cricket scorecards, comprising two at Vincent Square, and four at Lord's (7) These dated reports and observations provide an important record of cricket and football matches played on its home ground, Vincent Square, and elsewhere. Also included in this auction, offered as lot 1222, is a photograph of the Westminster School Football XI in April 1875.