'muscular Christianity' being the vogue. The team played their only recorded match on 29 November 1879 against Rovers F.C. Pitt recalled the foundation of this club in speech given in September 1911 - "He thought he might venture to say that he was the father of the Swindon Football Club. It was in the autumn of 1879 that some young fellows belonging to the Swindon factory met with him in the King William Street school to organise a club [...] They decided to call it the Swindon Association Football Club, but they found the name rather a mouthful to shout out, so they [later] changed the name to the Spartans. They played the first game on a field not far away, it being kindly lent by Mr Hooper Deacon, who was always a friend of sport." Pitt was still a member of the Spartans F.C. team when they played St. Mark's Young Men's Friendly Society on 12 November 1881, after which the two teams merged under the name Swindon Football Club. Appointed as the rector of Liddington in 1881, Pitt ceased his active involvement in the club, relating in 1911 (then a prebendary) - "the rev. gentleman mentioned that his removal from Swindon caused his severance with the club" The team was renamed Swindon Town Football Club in 1883, but confusion as to the official date of establishment remained until 2007. The current club used the date of the 1881 match with St Marks, whilst some fans and researchers insist upon 1879. This led to the club's researcher and retail manager Paul Plowman integrating an "Est. 1879" tag onto the team's kit in 1995 which was removed in 1996. The club officially recognised the 1879 establishment in 2007 and integrated the date onto the team's badge. Liddington Pitt left Swindon in 1882 to become Rector of All Saints' Church in Liddington. He married Alice Mary Kinneir in 1882 in Christchurch. Alice was the daughter of Solicitor and Churchwarden Henry Kinneir. Pitt was to remain at Liddington for the next 54 years; the only time he lived elsewhere was during the period 1916–1917, when he served with the Church Army in France. William and Alice had five children, Alice born in 1884, William in 1886, Edith in 1887, Clifford in 1889 and Audrey in 1892. Clifford died on 1 February 1915 in Baumu, British East Africa. An Oxford graduate, he had