Sir Alec Victor Bedser (1918–2010) by unknown photographer, 1946 [right, with his twin brother, Eric Bedser] © Popperfoto / Getty Images
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Bedser, Sir Alec Victor (1918–2010)
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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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May, Peter Barker Howard (1929–1994), cricketer and insurance broker
John Woodcock
May, Peter Barker Howard (1929–1994), cricketer and insurance broker, was born on 31 December 1929 at 95 Northcourt Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, the elder son and elder child of Thomas Howard May, director of the family electrical engineering business, Callas Sons and May, and his wife and cousin, ...
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May, Peter Barker Howard (1929–1994)
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Peter Barker Howard May (1929–1994) by Brian Griffin, 1982 © Brian Griffin; collection National Portrait Gallery, London
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Shepherd, Donald John (Don) (1927–2017), cricketer and shopkeeper
Huw Richards
Shepherd, Donald John (Don) (1927–2017), cricketer and shopkeeper, was born at Well Cottage, Port Eynon, Gower, on 12 August 1927, the eldest child in the family of two sons and a daughter of David John (Jack) Shepherd (1901–1979), bus driver, later shopkeeper, and his wife ...
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Ward, William (1787–1849), cricketer and banker
E. I. Carlyle
revised by Robert Brown
Ward, William (1787–1849), cricketer and banker, was born at Highbury Place, Highbury, Middlesex, in July 1787, the second son of George Ward (d. 1829), of Northwood Park, Cowes, a London merchant and large-scale landowner in the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, and his wife, ...
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Williams, Charles Cuthbert Powell, Baron Williams of Elvel (1933–2019), cricketer, financier, and politician
Martin Vander Weyer
Williams, Charles Cuthbert Powell, Baron Williams of Elvel (1933–2019), cricketer, financier, and politician, was born at the Acland Nursing Home in Oxford on 9 February 1933, the son of Norman Powell Williams (1883–1943), canon of Christ Church, and his wife Muriel de Lérisson...
