page_title: Stock Exchange Rifle Club
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Stock Exchange Rifle Club / History
caption_attribution_description: English: View down the main (small bore) 6-lane range at the London Bridge premises of the Stock Exchange Rifle Club/Marylebone Rifle and Pistol Club
context_page_description: The Stock Exchange Rifle Club is located in the City of London. While the origins of the club were once linked to the Stock Exchange, membership is open to all and the current membership is drawn from all walks of life. The majority either tend to live or work near central London and the "square mile". The Club was one of the first formed in the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the Boer War to meet the need to recruit soldiers who could already shoot. It is a Registered Charity.
  The City range of the club is located under London Bridge, and all City-based shooting is done there.
  The Club is also active in long range target rifle shooting and is based for this purpose at the National Shooting Centre, Bisley. The Stock Exchange Rifle Club is affiliated to the well-known London and Middlesex Rifle Association - which boasts some of the best facilities and services in the Bisley complex.
context_section_description: The Stock Exchange Rifle Club was founded in 1901 by Colonel (later, Sir) Robert Inglis, who responded to Lord Roberts' call to establish small-arms shooting clubs across the land. Lord Roberts, as commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force sent out to put down the Boer rebellion, had discovered that the shooting skills of his soldiers left much to be desired. After handing over to Kitchener, he returned to Britain determined to do something about it. He wanted British soldiers to be as practiced with the rifle as their famous forebears had been with the longbow.
  Inglis wrote to members of the "House", that is, the Stock Exchange, of which body his firm was a member, on 18 November 1901, and by 19 December, capital had been raised, and arrangements put in place to permit practice by "at least all those Members who have had no previous knowledge of rifle shooting", every Monday and Friday, at a range in the Haymarket, SW1. A similarly-named club had been formed in New York before 1878.
  The first annual prize meeting was held at Bisley on 5 July 1902. Membership already stood at 338: 178 Members of the Stock Exchange and 160 clerks.
  Inglis was in his first year as Chairman of the Stock Exchange itself, and was knighted in 1910. With all his many interests, his dedication to the establishment of the Stock Exchange Rifle Club was unstinted, and by 1903 a lease had been signed for 2 Borers Passage, just off Devonshire Square, north of Houndsditch and mere yards from the Stock Exchange itself. These premises were to provide 24 rifle positions at 100 feet, and 8 pistol ranges of 75 feet.
  Despite some setbacks, the new ranges were open and in use by the end of 1904, and the Club's foundations were secure.
  The Museum of London displays an old shooting jacket, "donated by a member of the Stock Exchange Rifle Club"
caption: View down the main (small bore) 6-lane range at the London Bridge premises of the Stock Exchange Rifle Club/Marylebone Rifle and Pistol Club
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