In 1861, a student at a west London military academy named Edwin Ash decided to gather his friends together for a regular game of football on Richmond Green. Since these modest beginnings, Ash’s club, Richmond FC, has continued to break new ground and to achieve great things both on and off the field. And on 12^th November 2011, over 350 members and friends as well as players past and present, gathered at 8 Northumberland Avenue for a gala dinner, one of two highlights of a year of celebrations marking Richmond’s 150^th Anniversary, the second being the fantastic game against The Barbarian FC played on 12^th April 2011 and preceded by a pre match supper for 600.