Code | DS/UK/634 |
Corporate Name | Bank of England Governor's Day |
Activity | Governor’s Day (or the Garden Party, as it was originally known) has been running as a regular event since 1920. Its origins lie in pre-WWI cricket matches held at Roehampton between Mr Douro Hall’s XI (William Douro Hall was a Director of the Bank since 1898) and a Bank of England XI. These began in 1912. |
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