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The Croquet England Selection events are held each year towards the end of the season in early September. Since the second World War there has usually been 8 players in each, playing a double round robin. The selections are normally made after the Open Championships in late July. In 2001 a fourth eight, the Treasurer's Tankard, was introduced

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The Spencer Ell Cup has been played for since 1973. Until 1933 the top event played for the Champion Cup, also known as the Beddow Cup, before it was won outright by Miss DD Steel. The Beddow Cup was discovered in the mid 1970s in an antique shop in Bedford. In 2007 the Beddow Cup was donated to the CA and will in future be presented to the winner of the Inter Club competition. The President's Cup was donated to the CA by Trevor Williams.

Download here an Excel spreadsheet (196 kb) containing game wins by year for all players in all eights.

President's Cup
(since 1934)*

Chairman's Salver

Spencer Ell/Surrey
Cup (to 72)

Treasurer's Tankard

2024

Samir Patel

Jack Good

Rick Harding

Joe King

2023

Stephen Mulliner

Dave Kibble

David Fuller

Neil Adams

2022

Samir Patel

Aston Wade

Lorna Dewar

Jack Wicks

2021

Mark Avery

Robin Brown

James Hopgood

David Warhurst

2020

Paddy Chapman

Samir Patel

Pete Trimmer

Ian Vincent

2019

Jose Riva

Ian Lines

Omied Hallam

Phil Cordingley

2018

Robert Fulford

Sam Murray

Dave Kibble

John Davis/Nigel Polhill

2017

Jose Riva

Mark Suter

Robert Wilkinson

Omied Hallam

2016

David Maugham

Christian Carter/Ian Lines

Andy Myers

Jonathan Powe

2015

Paddy Chapman

James Hopgood

David Harrison-Wood

Sam Murray

2014

Jamie Burch

Jeff Dawson

Matt Holmes

Luc Berthouze

2013

Samir Patel

Pete Trimmer

Gabrielle Higgins

Matt Holmes

2012

Robert Fulford

Nick Mounfield

Dave Kibble

Craig Oakley

2011

Robert Fulford

James Hopgood

Martin Murray

David Harrison-Wood

2010

Robert Fulford

Jamie Burch

Jonathan Hills

Richard Griffiths

2009

Robert Fulford

Tony Le Moignan

Martin Murray

Dave Kibble

2008

Robert Fulford

Ian Lines

James Le Moignan

Martin Murray

2007

James Death

Tony Le Moignan

Ben Ashwell

Louise Bradforth

2006

Robert Fulford

Jeff Dawson

Samir Patel

Nick Butler

2005

Keith Aiton

Jeff Dawson

Sam Tudor

Chris Williams

2004

David Maugham

Ian Lines

Duncan Hector

Paul Smith

2003

Chris Clarke

Rutger Beijderwellen

Tim Wilkins

Marcus Evans

2002

Robert Fulford

Mark Avery

Keith Aiton

David Magee

2001

Robert Fulford

David Goacher

Tim Wilkins

Jonathan Kirby

2000

Ed Cunningham

Robin Brown

Peter Taylor/Chris Patmore

1999

Robert Fulford

Jeff Dawson

Ed Duckworth

1998

Robert Fulford

Terry Burge

Dave Kibble

1997

Steve Comish

Don Gaunt

Ed Duckworth

1996

Chris Clarke

Roger Tribe

David Harrison-Wood

1995

Chris Clarke

David Goacher

Brian Hallam

1994

David Maugham

Phil Cordingley

Chris Williams

1993

David Maugham

Steve Comish

Lewis Palmer

1992

Stephen Mulliner

David Wiggins

Duncan Hector

1991

Chris Clarke

David Goacher

Paul Day

1990

David Maugham

David Goacher

Ian Bond

1989

Robert Fulford

David Maugham

Francis Landor

1988

Chris Clarke

Phil Cordingley

Debbie Cornelius

1987

Stephen Mulliner

George Noble

David Goacher

1986

Stephen Mulliner

Nick Hyne

Martin French

1985

Nigel Aspinall

John Walters

Tim Harrison

1984

Nigel Aspinall

David Foulser

Colin Irwin

1983

Stephen Mulliner

Keith Aiton

Terry Wood

1982

Nigel Aspinall

Martin Coward

Mark Ormerod

1981

Stephen Mulliner

John McCullough

Eddie Bell

1980

Nigel Aspinall

Vic Rees

Ian Bond

1979

Eric Solomon

John Phillips

Bryan Sykes

1978

Nigel Aspinall

Eric Solomon

Simon Tapp

1977

Keith Wylie

William Prichard

Paul Hands

1976

Nigel Aspinall

Eric Solomon

Stephen Wright

1975

Nigel Aspinall

Colin Prichard

Neil Robinson

1974

Nigel Aspinall

Stephen Hemsted

Vincent Camroux

1973

Nigel Aspinall

Martin Murray

Andrew Hope

1972

William Prichard

Jean Jarden

Jocelyn Sundius-Smith

1971

John Solomon

Paul Hands

Kitty Sessions

1970

Nigel Aspinall

Michael Stride

Dudley Hamilton-Miller

1969

Nigel Aspinall

David O'Connor

Martin Murray

1968

John Solomon

Edgar Jackson

Martin Murray

1967

Keith Wylie

Brian Lloyd Pratt

David Prichard

1966

William Ormerod

Hope Rotherham

David Prichard

1965

John Bolton

Peter Fidler

1964

John Solomon

Roger Hicks

1963

John Solomon

Douglas Strachan

1962

John Solomon

Arthur Reed

1961

Humphrey Hicks

David Prichard

1960

Patrick Cotter

David Curtis

1959

John Solomon

Gerald Cave

1958

John Solomon

Edgar Jackson

1957

John Solomon

Gerald Cave

1956

Patrick Cotter

William Ormerod

1955

John Solomon

Desmond Beamish

1954

Humphrey Hicks

1953

Patrick Cotter

1952

Patrick Cotter

1951

Humphrey Hicks

1950

Patrick Cotter

1949

Patrick Cotter

1948

Humphrey Hicks

1947

Humphrey Hicks

1946

Dudley Hamilton-Miller

1938

Charles Colman

1937

Dorothy Steel

1936

Lorn Apps

1935

William Du Pre

1934

Dorothy Steel

Beddow Cup

1933

Dorothy Steel

1932

Bruce Morgan

1931

Dorothy Steel

Champion Cup

1930

Humphrey Hicks

1929

Bruce Morgan

1928

Knightley Coxe

1927

Edgar Whitaker

Beddow Cup

1926

Edgar Whitaker

Champion Cup

1925

William Longman

1924

Noel de la Mothe (nee Gilchrist)

1923

Dorothy Steel

1922

Dorothy Steel

1921

Claude Francis Barry

1920

Leslie O'Callaghan

1919

Claude Francis Barry

1914

Herbert Snell

1913

Cyril Corbally

1912

Duff Mathews

1911

H Maxwell Browne

1910

Leslie O'Callaghan

1909

Leslie O'Callaghan

1908

Edmund Fawcett

1907

Maurice Barry

1906

Geoffrey Woolston

1905

Reginald Beaton

1904

Lily Gower

1903

Geoffrey Woolston

1902

Geoffrey Woolston

1901

William Bruce

* The President's Cup was known as the British Masters in 1993