WENLOCK OLYMPIAN SOCIETY
William Penny Brookes was born in Much Wenlock in where his father was one of the local doctors.
The family house is situated in Wilmore Street opposite the Parish Church. He left Much Wenlock to study Medicine at Guy&#;s and St Thomas&#;s Hospitals in London. Later he travelled to Italy with his brother John to study at Padua, a renowned school of medicine attached to the University. The medieval botanical gardens at Padua could also have been an attraction to the young medical student.
In Brookes was in Paris to further his education in Medicine when he learnt that his father had died of typhoid. After qualifying (M.R.C.S and L.S.A.) in , he returned to Much Wenlock to take over his father&#;s practice.
He became a JP in and remained an active magistrate for nearly 40 years. He would regularly have been confronted with cases of petty crime, drunkenness and theft in the local community. This would no doubt have influenced his desire to develop the need for structured physical exercise and education for the working classes.
Brookes, again in , founded the Agricultural Reading Society. This early kind of lending library was established &#;
At pm on July 6th , Jacques Rogge, the head of the International Olympic Committee announced that London had won the right to stage the Olympic Games. This announcement was not only incredibly significant to Britain but also to Much Wenlock and the future development of the Brookes legacy. To capture the potential benefits of this once in a lifetime opportunity and to communicate the William Penny Brookes story and promote his beliefs, a foundation has been formed. A number of partners have come together to use their knowledge and experience to help encourage communities around the nation to understand how living the William Penny Brookes philosophy really can change your life!
Wenlock Olympian Games Heritage
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Baron Pierre de Coubertin's vision for the Olympic games is hailed as one of modern sports greatest achievements.
But he was almost certainly inspired to create the global games festival after a bureaucratic fact-finding mission that led him to a small town in Shropshire.
It was while enjoying the efforts of the people of Much Wenlock as they battled for honours in pursuits such as quoit-throwing and cricket, that Coubertin realised the potential for the modern Olympics.
And the man behind these humble beginnings was a burly, bearded doctor called William Penny Brookes.
Coubertin, the man most usually credited with the modern Olympic revival, had not conceived of the competition that he helped organise in Athens in until he went to Britain to try to find out more about sports in English public schools.
Brookes learnt of Coubertin's visit and invited the Frenchman, then 27 years old, to come to the Much Wenlock Olympian Society's games, which had been staged in the heart of Shropshire since
Coubertin was impressed with what he saw and sat up with Brookes long into the night discussing how the Wenlock games might be translated on to a bigger stage.
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William Penny Brookes was the founder of the Much Wenlock Olympian Games, an early influence on the thinking of Pierre de Coubertin towards the revival of the Olympics. Brookes was a doctor who was educated at various schools in Shropshire, and began his study of medicine at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s Hospitals in London in about He finished his studies in Paris and Padua, returning to Much Wenlock in to carry on the general practice of medicine which his father had started. He founded the National Olympian Association in , the forerunner of the British Olympic Association. He was active in public affairs, serving as Justice of the Peace and Commissioner for Roads for the borough of Wenlock, and in formed the Wenlock Agricultural Reading Society. Brookes eventually became a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries and, in , a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Brookes was an invited dignitary to Coubertin’s Sorbonne Congress of that founded the Modern Olympic Games, but he was unable to attend because of illness. He and Coubertin corresponded frequently and Brookes had Coubertin visit the Much Wenlock Olympian Games in October In , Brookes was the first person who proposed th
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