The club was associated with the City firm of Messrs Morley,[3] a firm of solicitors whose partners included Ebenezer Cobb Morley, one of the founding fathers of the Football Association, and who stepped down as president the year of Gresham's foundation.

The firm was based at Gresham House on Old Broad Street, London.

It next entered the competition in 1879–80, beating Kildare away from home[6] in the first round, but losing heavily to the Grey Friars club in the second.

The Grey Friars defeat was Gresham's final match in the Cup.

[13] By 1880 it had moved its headquarters to the Bedford Hotel on Victoria Park Road.