Charles Goodman Tebbutt (1860–1944) was an English speed skater[1] and bandy player[2] from Bluntisham, England, in the Fens of Cambridgeshire where Fen skating was a popular winter activity in the nineteenth century.
Charles Goodman Tebbutt | |
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.png) Charles Goodman Tebbutt with a bandy stick in 1889 | |
| Born | 1860  |
| Died | 1944 (aged 83–84) |
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He also wrote articles and books about speed skating and bandy, including several chapters in the Badminton Library book Skating (1892) with John Moyer Heathcote.[3] He wrote a chapter on matches in Holland and Sweden in A Handbook of Bandy by Arnold Tebbutt.[4]
He is said to have been the first player to establish the rules of bandy and popularize the sport in Northern Europe, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Photo of the speed skater Charles Goodman Tebbutt[permanent dead link]
- ^ Photo of the bandy player Charles Goodman Tebbutt[permanent dead link]
- ^ Heathcote, J.M.; Tebbutt, C.G. (1892). Skating. Longmans, Green and Co. OL 7132924M.
- ^ Arnold Tebbutt (1896). A Handbook of Bandy; or, Hockey on Ice. Horace Cox.
External linksEdit
- A photograph of three of the Tebbutt brothers. The Tebbutt brothers are in the front row, with Charles Goodman on the left.
- An article about bandy and the Tebbutts[permanent dead link] from Cambridgeshire Archives
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