E Bainton
Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 September 2011 19:33 Written by Bryn Jones Wednesday, 07 September 2011 16:54
(Henry William) Eddison Bainton was the very first honorary secretary of the golf club, elected at the inaugural meeting of members in the Holderness Hotel in 1889. He only held the position briefly giving way to G A Robinson who was secretary until 1903. Eddison was born in 1969, the son of Henry William Bainton and Jessie Alice Eddision. The family lived in Alexandra Terrace at the time of the 1871 census. Eddison's father and grand-father were both solicitors in Beverley and Eddison followed in their footsteps. Eddison married Maria Catherine Reeves in Hastings in 1908 the year after his father died. After their marriage they went to live in Shotteswell near Banbury living off private means.
Eddison's father lived with his family in New Walk, Beverley but according to Bulmer's directory of 1892 he was also lord of the manor of North Frodingham. By 1881, Eddison was a boarder at a small prep school in Leamington