How Croquet History began
Ever wondered who started Croquet? Well one man Invented Croquet... John Jaques the second.
The History of The game of Croquet
The Start and beginning of Croquet....where it began. The Great Exhibiton hall in London in 1851
The First mention of the word 'Croquet' is somewhat obscure — John Jaques the Second (JJ II) first glimpsed a distant version of it in Ireland, And the etymology of the word ‘Croquet’ remains tantalizingly unresolved.
But John Jaques II’s compilation of the first official rules and regulations in 1862 no doubt created the game of croquet into what it is today and stopped the sport from flying off in all directions and kept it firmly on the Croquet History path.
Croquet and Alice in Wonderland.
Lewis Carroll, a Jaques Family relation and avid player at Oxford in the 1860s, reflected the potentially unruly nature of croquet in his memorable passage of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground in which the Croquet balls were hedgehogs, the croquet mallets live ostriches, (flamingos appear in later versions), “and the soldiers had to double themselves up and stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches”.
