When the Hon. Ivo Bligh took an English team to Australia in 1882-83, he said he was going to reclaim the Ashes of English cricket, lost at the Oval.
Australia won by 7 runs, and the wife of a Melbourne property baron, who had a little urn on her mantlepiece, presented it , with some ashes, to Bligh, beginning a 30-year-old competition.
