From the MLFHS mailing list, posted with permission of the author. -------- Original Message -------- >> Members may remember the article about the above person that was >> published in Vol.45 No. 2 of the Manchster Genealogist under the title >> "My own Olympic Hero!" >> >> I have now finished creating a website to his memory, because he was >> instrumental in the formation of the National Olympian Association at his >> Liverpool Gymnasium on 6th November 1865. The website can be found >> at http://www.johnhulley-olympics.co.uk and contains all the information >> collected about him from his birth in 1832 to his death in 1875. >> It also lists the acknowledgments and tributes to him during and >> after his lifetime. >> >> A re-dedication ceremony of his gravestone in a Liverpool cemetery was >> held last June and the website contains several images of it, before and >> after it was re-discovered. The difference is amazing! >> >> The 2012 London Olympics will be the perfect occasion on which HULLEY's >> work in the British Olympic arena is finally recognised and I would be >> grateful if you would give the widest publicity to the site in your >> sphere of influence, so that John HULLEY's memory is enshrined in British >> Olympic sporting history. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Ray