He had amateur experience to build on with the Canterbury Old Stagers and the Windsor Strollers, and had played with Albert Richard Smith and Edmund Yates among others.
12.
After leaving Oxford he acted with the Old Stagers along with fellow barrister and OUDS alumnus C . W . Mercer, who subsequently acted as his best man.
13.
To sit beside him in the pavilion at Lords'or in the Old Stagers enclosure at Canterbury was to see cricket as it was played in the golden days ".
14.
He founded the Old Stagers club of Canterbury, and most eccentrically the team known as I Zingari, a wandering cricket club of assorted aristocrats and Victorian and Edwardian notables.
15.
Welsh journalist'Old Stager'stated " The Africans, by adherence to ten-man rugby, are winning their matches, but are not capturing the hearts and the imagination of rugby followers . . . ".
16.
Whilst its creditors lined up a High Court hearing with the aim of liquidating the club, Swansea City had come to rely on a combination of old stagers and young professionals.
17.
Some time after the march, Fawcett stated, " We, the old stagers, adopted new methods, one of the most successful of which was the organisation of public processions in the streets ."
18.
Most of the Old Stagers played cricket for I Zingari during the day and performed on the stage in the evening, but there is no evidence to suggest that Taylor played cricket.
19.
During 1842, Taylor, together with his Cambridge friends Frederick Ponsonby ( Earl of Bessborough ), Charles G . Taylor and William Bolland, formed the Old Stagers, which is recognised as the oldest amateur drama society still performing.
20.
Darlington soon established a lead at the top of the division which they were to hold for the rest of the season, despite their team containing numerous " real old stagers ", players who were well known before the war.
