John Loraine Baldwin
Deceased Person
1809 – 1896
Who was John Loraine Baldwin?
John Loraine Baldwin was a prominent English cricket enthusiast who was a co-founder of the I Zingari nomadic cricket club.
He was born near Halifax, Yorkshire, and studied at Oxford University where he developed interests in cricket and dramatics. He was a sports and games rules enthusiast, and one of the founders of I Zingari on 4 July 1845. He was also the writer of the first standardized rules for badminton in 1868, while on a visit to Badminton House, and editor of "The Laws of Short Whist" of 1864. He was Warden of Tintern Abbey in 1873, and died at his home in Tintern in 1896.
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