Robert Dover (Cotswold Games)

For information on the dressage rider, see Robert Dover (equestrian).

A 1636 woodcut showing Dover on horseback presiding over his Olimpick Games

Robert Dover (1575/82–1652) was an English attorney, author and wit, best known as the founder and for many years the director of the Cotswold Olimpick Games.[1]

  1. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dover, Robert" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 453.