Author: Lee, Simon
Title: Vincent's
Description: Third Millennium Publishing, 2014.1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.ISBN: 9781908990334.New/New .The history of a Club in Oxford, loosely affiliated to the University and specialiseng in sporting interests.In the words of the publisher's blurb, 'Vincent's Club was founded in 1863 above Vincent's the printers at 90 The High by the notably unconventional undergraduate oarsman Walter Bradford Woodgate of Brasenose College.Woodgate's vision was to bring together Oxford's leading one hundred sportsmen and, particularly, all-round characters, his 'originals', reflecting the founder's own lively disregard for convention.Vincent's, in Woodgate's own phrase, 'at once acquired a special prestige, which has never left it'. In English.1 kg.

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