Herbert Francis Eaton, 3rd Baron Cheylesmore was a British Army officer, sportsman, and peer. He was Chairman of London County Council, chairman of the National Rifle Association and presided over cou
Cheylesmore in 1906 as mayor of Westminster, by Tennyson Cole
As depicted by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, October 1891
Coopers Hill, Runnymede
Cheylesmore mausoleum in Highgate Cemetery
The National Rifle Association is the national governing body for fullbore rifle and pistol shooting sports in the United Kingdom founded in 1859. Its main activities includes organising civilian targ
Herbert Eaton, 3rd Baron Cheylesmore
…Cheylesmore (25 January 1848 – 29 July 1925) was a British Army officer, sportsman, and peer. He was Chairman of London County Council, chairman of the National Rifle Association and presided over courts martial during the First World War. Eaton was the son of Henry Eaton, 1st Baron Cheylesmore and his wife Charlotte Gorham…
Queen Victoria firing the opening shot of the NRA's first Imperial Meeting on Wimbledon Common, July 1860
NRA Secretary Charles Robert Crosse, caricatured in Vanity Fair's "Men of the Day" series in 1912
NRA Headquarters at the National Shooting Centre, Bisley Camp