WHITEHALL
24th June, 1892
Sir,
With reference to your application for permission to make use of he title 'Royal' in the name of the Corinthian Yacht Club; I am directed by the Secretary of State to acquaint you that he has had the honour to lay your application before THE QUEEN and that Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accede to your request and to command that the Corinthian Yacht Club shall be called the 'Royal Corinthian Yacht Club'.
I am,
SIR,
Your obedient Servant,
(signed) E. LEIGH PEMBERTON
The Secretary,
Royal Corinthian Yacht Club,
Manor Way,
Erith
The receipt of this letter seems to have been taken fairly phlegmatically by the members. There is no direct reference to this 'ennoblement' in the match book - the last race as C.Y.C. being given on June 21st and that on July 2nd reported under the heading R.C.Y.C. Perhaps after all they had a 'capital dinner', the size and liquidity of which erased all recollection from the mind of the archivist of the time. This letter is on permanent display in the Clubhouse at Burnham.
One hundred Years of Amateur Yachting R. K. Melville