Birth index entry Jan-Feb-Mar 1845 MATON  Leonard James. Pewsey Vol Vlll p.42876 (“Pe* * * “ = index unreadable.20) ‘Leonard Maton’ in large Carslake pedigree10,160. Marr indexed as Leonard James20 Elmhurst Grosvenor Hill in 1881 Census44
2 Grosvenor Hill, North Wimbledon, SUR in 190192
From Shrewton Parish website:
The details of our War Dead brought several responses - and two new names. It has been confirmed that it was Leonard 'Robert James' Porter who came from Shrewton, and that George Bolter, an infantryman who died in 1943 at Catania in Siciliy, was the brother of 'Robert' Bolter (who died in a bombing raid at Weymouth, serving with the Dorsetshire Regiment). And two other brothers, Eustace and Leonard Maton, whose family owned Maddington Manor for several generations before the 1st World War, died in that conflict, the former a naval Lieutenant leading a flotilla at Jutland in HMS Tipperary in 1916, the latter a Captain in the Dorsets at the battle of Arras in 1917.
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From The Ultimate Encyclopaedia of Rugby, Carlton Books 1997:
THE CODIFICATION OF RUGBY
With so many different forms of football being played in England's schools, however, it was by no means certain that the Rugby code would prevail. Former pupils of Rugby school were the most evangelical advocates of their game and in 1839 Old Rugbeian Arthur Pell founded a club at Cambridge University and challenged a group of Old Etonians to a game of football. The Etonians, however, were astounded at the Rugbeians' use of their hands and so it was decided that representatives from the major public schools of Eton, Rugby, Harrow, Marlborough, Westminster and Shrewsbury would codify what became known as the "Cambridge Rules" in 1848. Outside the universities and schools, other clubs were also beginning to form. Blackheath and Richmond played their first game under "Harrow Rules" in 1861, changing the next year to "Rugby Rules" after an influx of Old Rugbeians.
The ambiguous situation regarding rules continued until 1863, when supporters of the "Kicking Codes" played at Charterhouse, Eton, Westminster and Harrow met Blackheath and the other supporters of the "Carrying Codes" popular at Cheltenham, Marlborough and Rugby at the Freemasons' Tavern in London to thrash out a compromise. All went well at first, with the Kickers accepting the Carriers' insistence on retaining the customs of "hacking" (kicking an opponent's shins, a practice which was eventually outlawed in 1866) and "tripping". Things went awry when the Kickers decided to refer the compromise to Cambridge University, who refused to countenance hacking, tripping or the key Blackheath condition, "that a player may be entitled to run with the ball towards his adversaries' goal if he makes a fair catch." Blackheath walked out, leading to the final split that created the two separate codes of Association Football (soccer) and Rugby Football. Even then, several clubs remained confused as to which code they should be playing, with the situation at Sale in 1870, where the club played rugby and Association Football on alternate weekends, by no means unique.
Rugby spread rapidly from that date, initially by the efforts of old boys of Rugby and Marlborough Schools, and in 1871 the Rugby Football Union was formed at a meeting convened at the Pall Mall Restaurant by Edwin Ash of Richmond. Three Rugbeians headed an organization of 20 clubs of which Richmond, Harlequins and Blackheath remain the best known. (Wasps would have been there had its delegate managed to drag himself out of the pub!) An Old Rugbeian and member of the now defunct Wimbledon Hornets club, Leonard Maton, codified the Laws of Rugby Football in 1871, in which hacking and tripping were expressly forbidden under law 57. The Varsity Match was first played in 1872, and the Hospital's Cup was inaugurated in 1875 as the English game set in place institutions that are alive and well in 1997.548
“ Leonard James Maton lived at Grosvenor Lodge, Wimbledon, Surrey, England.1 ..
1. [S8] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 10. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition. “309
In 1916 of 1, Sundial House, Kensington.549