How Croquet History began.

Have you ever wondered how croquet began? Well one man made croquet begin - John Jaques the second.

how croquet began. the history of The game of Croquet

The Start and beginning of Croquet. Where Croquet began. The Great Exhibiton hall in London in 1851

The First mention of the word 'Croquet' is somewhat obscure — John Jaques the Second (JJ II) first glimpsed a distant version of it in Ireland, And the etymology of the word ‘Croquet’ remains tantalizingly unresolved.

Croquet invented at the great exhibition in london in 1851

Pictured above is the Huge Glass building erected for the great exhibition in London in 1851

But John Jaques II’s compilation of the first official rules and regulations in 1862 no doubt created the game of croquet into what it is today and stopped the sport from flying off in all directions and kept it firmly on the Croquet History path.

First croquet rules from 1864

Pictured above are the earliest Croquet rules from 1864. Written by John Jaques. John Jaques Began Croquet.

Lewis Carroll, a Jaques Family relation and avid player at Oxford in the 1860s, reflected the potentially unruly nature of croquet in his memorable passage of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground in which the Croquet balls were hedgehogs, the croquet mallets live ostriches, (flamingos appear in later versions), “and the soldiers had to double themselves up and stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches”.

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Sandringham Finest Quality 8 player Croquet Set.
Hurlingham Finest Quality four player Croquet Set.
Association Croquet Set.
Great Exhibition Croquet Set.
Cheltenham Croquet Set.

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