Thomas Waring, an associate of
Ashton Lever, had started partaking in archery in an effort to get more exercise and improve his health. Lever, apparently after seeing the effect archery had on Waring, founded what was then known as the
Toxophilite Society on 3 April 1781. In 1787,
George Augustus Frederick, the Prince of Wales and the future King of the United Kingdom, started occasionally shooting with the society. ==References==