Aislabie, Benjamin (1774–1842), wine merchant and cricket administrator, was born on 14 January 1774 in Newington Green, Middlesex, the third son, and sixth and last child, of Rawson Aislabie (d. 1806), soap and wine merchant of Newington Green who owned two estates on the island of ...
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Aislabie, Benjamin (1774–1842), wine merchant and cricket administrator
Eric Midwinter
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Allen, Sir George Oswald Browning [Gubby] (1902–1989), cricketer and cricket administrator
John Woodcock
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Allen, Sir George Oswald Browning [Gubby] (1902–1989), cricketer and cricket administrator, was born on 31 July 1902 in Sydney, Australia, the younger son and second of the three children of Sir Walter Macarthur Allen (1870–1943) and his wife, Marguerite Julie (Pearl), daughter of ...
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Ames, Leslie Ethelbert George (1905–1990), cricketer
Ivo Tennant
Ames, Leslie Ethelbert George (1905–1990), cricketer, was born at Fairfield House, Elham, Kent, on 3 December 1905, the son of Harold Ames, accountant, and his wife, Edith Broadbridge. He attended the Harvey Grammar School, Folkestone, and was unusual in his day in embarking on a career as a professional cricketer after a grammar school education. He left school at seventeen and was apprenticed in his cousin's grocery business, but a year later he joined the ...
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Bailey, Trevor Edward (1923–2011), cricketer, broadcaster, and journalist
Dilwyn Porter
Bailey, Trevor Edward (1923–2011), cricketer, broadcaster, and journalist, was born on 3 December 1923 at 11 Imperial Avenue, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, the younger son (there were no daughters) of Bertrand Fothergill Bailey (1884–1947), a civil servant at the Admiralty, and his wife, Muriel Elsie, ...
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Barnes, Sydney Francis (1873–1967), cricketer
Gerald M. D. Howat
Barnes, Sydney Francis (1873–1967), cricketer, was born on 19 April 1873 at Cross Street, Smethwick, Staffordshire, the second son of the five children of Richard Barnes, a metal tester and later foreman shipper, who worked in Birmingham for the Muntz Metal Company for sixty-three years, and his wife, ...
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Bedser, Sir Alec Victor (1918–2010), cricketer and businessman
Rob Steen
Bedser, Sir Alec Victor (1918–2010), cricketer and businessman, was born on 4 July 1918 at his grandmother's house, 13 Pangbourne Street, Reading, one of twin sons of Arthur Bedser (1890–1978), a bricklayer then serving as an aircraftsman with the RAF, and his wife, ...
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Compton, Denis Charles Scott (1918–1997), cricketer and footballer
E. W. Swanton
Compton, Denis Charles Scott (1918–1997), cricketer and footballer, was born on 23 May 1918 at 20 Alexandra Road, Hendon, Middlesex, the youngest of three children of Henry (Harry) Ernest Compton, a manufacturing chemist's counterman, and his wife, Jessie Anne Duthie. Both parents resided at ...
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Constantine, Learie Nicholas, Baron Constantine (1901–1971), cricketer and politician
Gerald M. D. Howat
Constantine, Learie Nicholas, Baron Constantine (1901–1971), cricketer and politician, was born on 21 September 1901 at Petit Valley, Diego Martin, near Maraval, Trinidad, the second child and eldest son of Lebrun Samuel Constantine (1874–1942), cricketer and cocoa estate overseer, and his wife, Anaise Pascall...
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Cowdrey, (Michael) Colin, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge (1932–2000), cricketer
John Woodcock
Cowdrey, (Michael) Colin, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge (1932–2000), cricketer, was born on 24 December 1932 at Putumala, near Ootacamund in southern India, the only child of Ernest Arthur Cowdrey, a tea planter, and his wife, Kathleen Mary (Molly) Taylor. Accorded the initials M. C. C....
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D'Oliveira, Basil Lewis [Dolly] (1931?–2011), cricketer
Rob Steen
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D'Oliveira, Basil Lewis [Dolly] (1931
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Douglas, John William Henry Tyler [Johnny] (1882–1930), cricketer and all-round sportsman
Clive Ellis
Douglas, John William Henry Tyler [Johnny] (1882–1930), cricketer and all-round sportsman, was born on 3 September 1882 at 2 Stamford Terrace, Stamford Hill, London, the elder son of John Herbert Douglas (1853–1930), timber merchant, and his wife, Julia Ann, née Tyler. His father combined a successful career as a businessman—he was head of the ...
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Edrich, William John [Bill] (1916–1986), cricketer
Eric Midwinter
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Edrich, William John [Bill] (1916–1986), cricketer, was born on 26 March 1916 in Lingwood, Norfolk, the second son and second child in the family of four sons and a daughter of William Archer Edrich, tenant farmer, and his wife, Edith Mattocks, originally of Cumbrian farming stock, whose family had moved to ...
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Flint [née Heyhoe], Rachael, Baroness Heyhoe Flint [known as Rachael Heyhoe Flint] (1939–2017), cricketer and hockey player
Rafaelle Nicholson
Flint [née Heyhoe], Rachael, Baroness Heyhoe Flint [known as Rachael Heyhoe Flint] (1939–2017), cricketer and hockey player, was born Rachael Heyhoe at 85 Claregate, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, on 11 June 1939, the daughter of Geoffrey Heyhoe (1899–1972), born in ...
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Frindall, William Howard [Bill] (1939–2009), cricket scorer and statistician
Rob Steen
Frindall, William Howard [Bill] (1939–2009), cricket scorer and statistician, was born at Middle House, Dorking Road, Epsom, Surrey, on 3 March 1939, the son of Arthur Howard Frindall (1909–1964), laboratory assistant, later research chemist, and his wife, Evelyn Violet, née McNeill (1909–1999). Given the concentration demanded by his work, it seemed apt that ...
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Grace, Edward Mills (1841–1911), cricketer
W. B. Owen
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Grace, Edward Mills (1841–1911), cricketer, was born on 28 November 1841 at Downend, near Bristol. He was the third of five sons (W. G. Grace being the fourth) of Dr Henry Mills Grace (1808–1871) and his wife, Martha, daughter of George Pocock...
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Grace, William Gilbert [W. G.] (1848–1915), cricketer and medical practitioner
Gerald M. D. Howat
Grace, William Gilbert [W. G.] (1848–1915), cricketer and medical practitioner, was born on 18 July 1848 at Clematis House, close to the family home of Downend House, Downend, Mangotsfield, near Bristol. He was the fourth son, in a family of nine, of Dr Henry Mills Grace (1808–1871)...
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Greig, Anthony William [Tony] (1946–2012), cricketer and cricket commentator
Rob Steen
Greig, Anthony William [Tony] (1946–2012), cricketer and cricket commentator, was born on 6 October 1946 in Queenstown, Cape Province, South Africa, the eldest of four children of Alexander (Sandy) Greig (1922–1990), born in West Lothian, and his wife, Josephine Barry (Joyce), née Taylor (...
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Hambledon cricket club (act. c. 1750–c. 1796)
Gerald M. D. Howat
Hambledon cricket club (act. c. 1750–c. 1796), named after the village of Hambledon, near Portsmouth in Hampshire, affords the earliest major documented source for the administration, membership, and activities of a game which had been played in England for over a century. Its first recorded match was in 1756 against ...
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Hammond, Walter Reginald (1903–1965), cricketer
Gerald M. D. Howat
Hammond, Walter Reginald (1903–1965), cricketer, was born on 19 June 1903 in the royal garrison at Dover Castle, the only child of Corporal (later Major) William Walter Hammond (1879–1918) and his wife, (Charlotte) Marion Crisp (1879–1970), of Buckland, near Dover. His father, son of a builder in ...
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Harris, George Robert Canning, fourth Baron Harris (1851–1932), cricketer and administrator in India
Katherine Prior
Harris, George Robert Canning, fourth Baron Harris (1851–1932), cricketer and administrator in India, was born at St Ann's, Trinidad, on 3 February 1851, the only son of George Francis Robert Harris, third Baron Harris (1810–1872), governor of Trinidad, and his wife, Sarah (...
