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The Third Grand Leamington and Midland Archery Meeting was held on June 18 and 19, 1856.
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The Thirteenth Grand National Archery Meeting was held on July 2 and 3, 1856, on the College Cricket-ground, at Cheltenham.
Ladies60 Yards50 YardsTotalsHitsScoreHitsScoreHitsScoreMrs. Horniblow6829441193109487Mrs. Davison10683123514910346110Did not shoot the last six arrows at 50 yards, being prevented by indisposition.
10Did not shoot the last six arrows at 50 yards, being prevented by indisposition.
10Did not shoot the last six arrows at 50 yards, being prevented by indisposition.
10Did not shoot the last six arrows at 50 yards, being prevented by indisposition.
Mrs. Horniblow won the silver bracer with six points, Mrs. Davison having won the point for score at 60 yards, andhaving made the same number of hits as Mrs. Horniblow at that distance. Miss H. Chetwynd made the same number of hits at 50 yards as Mrs. Horniblow.
Mr. Ford again secured the Champion's medal with eight points, his old opponent Mr. Bramhall having won the points for hits and score at 100 yards.
Seventy-two ladies and 112 gentlemen shot at this meeting.
The first edition of 'The Theory and Practice of Archery' was published in the course of this year.
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The Fourth Grand Leamington and Midland Archery Meeting was held on June 10 and 11, 1857.
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The Fourteenth Grand National Archery Meeting was held on July 1 and 2, 1857—again at Cheltenham.
Miss H. Chetwynd won the silver bracer with all the points, and exceeded all the previous performances of ladies in match shooting.
Mr. Ford again secured all the points for the Champion's medal, and made the finest score ever yet made in public.
The average of the shooting of all showed a marked improvement at this meeting; and it was gratifying to Mr. Ford to be able to state that several of the leading archers attributed their high positions in the prize-list to their careful following out of the principles and directions laid down in his book.
Sixty-one ladies and ninety-seven gentlemen shot.
Mr. H. C. Mules scored 389 on the handicap day.
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The Fifth Grand Leamington and Midland Archery Meeting was held on June 23 and 24, 1858.
Twenty-nine ladies and twenty-nine gentlemen shot.
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The Fifteenth Grand National Archery Meeting was held on July 21 and 22, 1858, at Exeter.
Mrs. Horniblow won the silver bracer with 4-1/2 points. Miss Turner won the point for hits at 60 yards, Lady Edwardesthe point for score at 60 yards, and Miss H. Chetwynd won the point for score at 50 yards and divided the point for hits at this distance with Mrs. Horniblow.
Mr. Ford, having won all the ten points, became Champion for the tenth time. He accounted for the apparent falling off in the shooting at this meeting as compared with the previous one by the fact that the weather was rough and the ground difficult.
Eighty-four ladies and eighty-six gentlemen shot.
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A Grand Archery Meeting was held in the grounds of Aston Park, near Birmingham, on September 8 and 9, 1858.
It was intended, and advertised, that this meeting should be repeated in 1859; but, from insufficient support, it was abandoned, and the first of the series of annual archery meetings held in the grounds of the Crystal Palace was substituted for it.
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The Sixth Grand Leamington and Midland Archery Meeting was held on June 15 and 16, 1859.
Thirty ladies and thirty-three gentlemen shot.
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The Sixteenth Grand National Archery Meeting was held on July 6 and 7, 1859—again at Exeter.
Miss Turner won the silver bracer with 5 points, Miss H. Chetwynd having won 2 points for gross hits and 1 point for hits at 60 yards.
The Champion's medal for the eleventh consecutive timewas won by Mr. Ford with 8 points, Mr. Edwards having won the points for hits and score at 80 yards.
Eighty-six ladies and eighty-four gentlemen shot.
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The second edition of Mr. Ford's book was issued in this year, and the account of this Grand National Archery Meeting was not included in it.
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A Grand Archery Meeting, under the management of Mr. Merridew, was proposed to be held in the grounds of Aston Park, Birmingham, on July 27 and 28, 1859, as mentioned by Mr. H. A. Ford at page 124; but at the Leamington meeting of the same year it was decided that this proposed meeting should be transferred to the grounds of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, and thus commenced the annual Crystal Palace Archery Meetings.
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The First Grand Annual Crystal Palace Archery Meeting was held on July 27 and 28, 1859, on the Cricket-ground.
Twenty ladies and forty-one gentlemen shot.
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The Seventh Grand Leamington and Midland Archery Meeting was held on June 13 and 14, 1860.
Thirty-two ladies and thirty-six gentlemen shot.