Charles Goodman Tebbutt
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.
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Charles Goodman Tebbutt with a bandy stick
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Charles Goodman Tebbutt doing a speed skating pose
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]
It 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.
References
- Photo of the speed skater Charles Goodman Tebbutt
- Photo of the bandy player Charles Goodman Tebbutt
- Heathcote, J.M.; Tebbutt, C.G. (1892). Skating. Longmans, Green and Co. OL 7132924M.
External links
- 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 from Cambridgeshire Archives
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