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Due to the proliferation of reporting of events relating to, leading up to and including the NRA's annual meeting at Bisley (especially in the years immediately following the removal of the event from Wimbledon in 1890), this is only a judicious selection of that reporting.  The below items do not appear in the main chronological list. 

The 'New Wimbledon', December 1888

Reading Mercury, 15 December 1888

Reading Mercury, 2 March 1889

Hampshire Advertiser 9 March 1889

Portsmouth Evening News, 17 August 1889

Dover Express, 23 August 1889

The Builder, 6 September 1889

London Gazette, 26 November 1889

London Gazette, 26 November 1889a

Isle of Wight Times, 12 December 1889

Brighton Gazette 30 January 1890

Dover Express, 14 February 1890

Gravesend Reporter 5 April 1890

Reading Mercury 19 April 1890

Sussex Agricultural Express 12 July 1890

Reading Mercury 19 July 1890

The Graphic, 19 July 1890

The Graphic, 26 July 1890

 

Mid Sussex Times, 2 February 1891

Mid Sussex Times, 24 February 1891

Mid Sussex Times, 3 March 1891

Chichester Observer, 17 June 1891

Mid Sussex Times, 14 July 1891

Hampshire Advertiser, 18 July 1891

Middlesex & Surrey Express, 18 July 1891

Mid Sussex Times, 21 July 1891

Portsmouth Evening News, 22 July 1891

Buckinghamshire Standard, 24 July 1891

Portsmouth Evening News, 30 July 1891

Daily Independent, 25 August 1891 (USA)

Brighton Gazette, 25 February 1892

Southern Echo, 18 July 1892

Portsmouth Evening News, 25 July 1892

Bognor Regis Observer, 27 July 1892

West Sussex County Times, 30 July 1892

Oxfordshire Weekly News, 8 February 1893

Dover Express, 2 June 1893

Dover Express, 14 July 1893

Dover Express, 21 July 1893

Portsmouth Evening News, 24 July 1893

Canterbury Gazette, 29 July 1893

Dover Express, 13 July 1894

Dover Express, 20 July 1894

Dover Express, 27 July 1894

Henley & South Oxfordshire Standard, 27 July 1894

West Surrey Times, 4 May 1895

Dover Express, 12 July 1895

Buckinghamshire Express, 13 July 1895

Hampshire Telegraph, 20 July 1895

 

Banbury Beacon, 22 February 1896

Buckinghamshire Herald, 21 March 1896

Illustrated London News, 11 July 1896

Sevenoaks Chronicle, 17 July 1896

Southern Echo, 24 July 1896

Illustrated London News, 25 July 1896

Banbury Advertiser, 30 July 1896

Southern Echo, 30 July 1896

Buckinghamshire Advertiser, 1 August 1896

Surrey Advertiser, 1 August 1896

Portsmouth Evening News, 8 January 1897

Hampshire Telegraph, 17 July 1897

Sussex Agricultural Express, 23 July 1897

Isle of Wight Times, 29 July 1897

Croydon Weekly Standard, 31 July 1897

Reading Mercury, 31 July 1897

Buckinghamshire Express, 16 July 1898

Windsor & Eton Express, 16 July 1898

Dover Express, 22 July 1898

Hampshire Telegraph, 30 July 1898

Hampshire Telegraph, 21 January 1899

Mid Sussex Times, 14 February 1899

West Surrey Times, 3 March 1899

Buckinghamshire Express, 29 April 1899

Witney Gazette, 8 July 1899

Hampshire Telegraph, 15 July 1899

Berkshire Chronicle, 22 July 1899

Penny Illustrated Paper, 22 July 1899

Oxfordshire Weekly News, 26 July 1899

Buckinghamshire Express, 14 July 1900

Portsmouth Evening News, 18 July 1900

Reading Mercury, 21 July 1900

Buckinghamshire Express, 21 July 1900

Dover Express, 27 July 1900

 

Surrey Advertiser, 22 June 1901

The Clarion, 13 June 1901

St James Gazette 19 July 1901

The Sketch 24 July 1901

Surrey Advertiser, 27 July 1901

Sevenoaks Chronicle, 24 January 1902

Mid Sussex Times, 22 April 1902

Surrey Mirror, 13 May 1902

Volunteer Service Gazette, 16 May 1902

Illustrated London News, 26 July 1902

Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, 26 July 1902

Sussex Agricultural Express, 1 August 1902

Volunteer Service Gazette, 1 August 1902

Portsmouth Evening News, 11 December 1902

Banbury Advertiser, 7 May 1903

The Graphic, 11 June 1903

Daily Telegraph, 13 July 1903

Evening Mail, 17 July 1903

Morning Post, 17 July 1903

Penny Illustrated Paper, 18 July 1903

The Sketch, 22 July 1903

St James Gazette, 22 July 1903

Tatler, 22 July 1903

The Globe, 24 July 1903

St James Gazette, 25 July 1903

Lloyds Weekly Newspaper, 26 July 1903

The Sketch, 29 July 1903

Volunteer Service Gazette, 31 July 1903

 

Henley & S Oxford Standard, 22 July 1904

Hertfordshire & Cambridgeshire Reporter, 22 July 1904

Illustrated London News, 23 July 1904

 

Morning Post, 1 July 1905

Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 11 July 1905

Mid-Lothian Journal, 14 July 1905

The Field, 15 July 1905

West Surrey Times, 29 July 1905

 

The Bystander, 18 July 1906

Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 18 July 1906

 

Nottingham Evening Post, 13 July 1907

The Sphere, 20 July 1907

 

Daily Telegraph, 16 July 1908

Daily Mirror, 17 July 1908

 

Surrey Advertiser, 21 June 1913

 

Western Daily Press, 9 July 1919