George Williams (YMCA) place was the YMCA, which he founded on 6 June 1844. It promoted Muscular Christianity. One of the earliest converts and contributors to the new association was George's employer, George Hitchcock. It also provided a safe place for young men and women. Williams was knighted by Queen Victoria in her 1894 Birthday Honours. After his death in 1905, he was commemorated by a stained-glass window in the nave of Westminster Abbey. Sir George Williams is buried in St Paul's Cathedral. Sir George Williams University in Montreal, which was founded by the YMCA, was named in commemoration of Williams; it was
Bell's Life in London came too late. Contributors included: Bell's Life in London Bell's Life in London, and Sporting Chronicle was an English weekly sporting paper published as a pink broadsheet between 1822 and 1886. "Bell's Life" was founded by Robert Bell, a London printer-publisher. Bell sold it to William Innell Clement, owner of "The Observer", in 1824 or 1825, and the paper swallowed up a competitor, "Pierce Egan's Life in London and Sporting Guide". From 1824 to 1852 it was edited by Vincent George Dowling, "during which time "Bell's Life" became Britain's leading sporting newspaper, without which no gentleman's Sunday was quite complete".