page_title: John Loraine Baldwin
hierarchical_section_title: John Loraine Baldwin
caption_attribution_description: Caricature of Mr. John Loraine Baldwin (1809 - 1896), cricket and sporting rules enthusiast. Caption read "I Zingari". He was a co-founder of the I Zingari cricket club in 1845, wrote the first standardized rules for badminton in 1868, and edited "The Laws of Short Whist" of 1864.
context_page_description: John Loraine Baldwin was a prominent English cricket enthusiast who was a co-founder of the I Zingari nomadic cricket club.
  He was born near Halifax, Yorkshire, and studied at Oxford University where he developed interests in cricket and dramatics. He was a sports and games rules enthusiast, and one of the founders of I Zingari on 4 July 1845. He was also the writer of the first standardized rules for badminton in 1868, while on a visit to Badminton House, and editor of "The Laws of Short Whist" of 1864. He was Warden of Tintern Abbey in 1873, and died at his home, St Anne's House in Tintern in 1896. A 'grand tomb' commemorates Baldwin in the churchyard of St Michaels, Tintern.
context_section_description: John Loraine Baldwin (1 June 1809 – 25 November 1896) was a prominent English cricket enthusiast who was a co-founder of the I Zingari nomadic cricket club.
  He was born near Halifax, Yorkshire, and studied at Oxford University where he developed interests in cricket and dramatics.  He was a sports and games rules enthusiast, and one of the founders of I Zingari on 4 July 1845.  He was also the writer of the first standardized rules for badminton in 1868, while on a visit to Badminton House, and editor of "The Laws of Short Whist" of 1864.  He was Warden of Tintern Abbey in 1873, and died at his home, St Anne's House in Tintern in 1896. A 'grand tomb' commemorates Baldwin in the churchyard of St Michaels, Tintern.
caption: "I Zingari"
  Baldwin as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, September 1895
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