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Abel, Robert [Bobby] (1857–1936), cricketer  

Eric Midwinter

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Abel, Robert [Bobby] (1857–1936), cricketer, was born at 18 Commercial Street, Rotherhithe, London, on 30 November 1857, the son of Thomas Abel (b. c.1815), a lamplighter, and his wife, Elizabeth Highland (b. 1816). After attending school in Southwark and playing cricket for ...

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Abraham, Ashley Perry (1876–1951)  

Anita McConnell

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Abraham, George Dixon (1871–1965), photographer and rock-climber  

Anita McConnell

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Abraham, George Dixon (1871–1965), photographer and rock-climber, was born at Derwent Street, Keswick, Cumberland, on 7 October 1871, the eldest son of George Perry Abraham (1844–1923), photographer, and his wife, Mary, née Dixon. G. P. Abraham had moved from London to Keswick, where he established a very successful photographic business and was for fifteen years a councillor. ...

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Abrahams, Harold Maurice (1899–1978)  

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Harold Maurice Abrahams (1899–1978) by A. R. Coster, 1924 [after winning the 100 yards at the AAA championship at Stamford Bridge, London, on 21 June 1924] Getty Images – A. R. Coster

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Abrahams, Harold Maurice (1899–1978), athlete and civil servant  

Norris McWhirter

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Abrahams, Harold Maurice (1899–1978), athlete and civil servant, was born at 30 Rutland Road, Bedford, on 15 December 1899, the youngest in the family of two daughters and four sons of Isaac Klonimus (1850–1921) of Vladislavovka in Russian-occupied Poland and his wife, Esther Isaacs...

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Adrian, Richard William [known as Kid Tanner] (1911x14–1963), boxer  

Gary Shaw

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Adrian, Richard William [known as Kid Tanner] (1912–1963), boxer, was born in Fellowship, British Guiana (later Guyana), on 16 March 1912, the son of James Adrian, variously described as a joiner and a prison warder. He later told boxing reporters that aged fourteen, he had become an apprentice auctioneer but by sixteen had embarked on a successful amateur boxing career. Records indicate his first professional contest was in ...

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Aislabie, Benjamin (1774–1842), wine merchant and cricket administrator  

Eric Midwinter

revised by Christine Clark

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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)  

Maker: Henry Edward Dawe

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Benjamin Aislabie (1774–1842) by Henry Edward Dawe © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Alcock, Charles William (1842–1907)  

Maker: James Russell & Sons

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Charles William Alcock (1842–1907) by James Russell & Sons Marylebone Cricket Club Photo Library

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Alcock, Charles William (1842–1907), sports administrator and writer  

Richard Holt

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Alcock, Charles William (1842–1907), sports administrator and writer, was born on 2 December 1842 at 10 Norfolk Street, Sunderland, the second child of six sons and three daughters of Charles Alcock (d. 1881), a shipowner and later a shipbroker and insurance broker, and his wife, ...

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Alexander, Alexander [Alick] (1849–1928), promoter of physical education  

Richard William Cox

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Alexander, Alexander [Alick] (1849–1928), promoter of physical education, was born in Liverpool on 14 May 1849, the second son of W. C. Alexander, a chief carpenter in the Royal Navy who had settled in Liverpool at the end of his period of service. Following an education at ...

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Alexander, (Conel) Hugh O'Donel (1909–1974), chess player and cryptanalyst  

Harry Golombek

revised by Ralph Erskine

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Alexander, (Conel) Hugh O'Donel (1909–1974), chess player and cryptanalyst, was born in Cork on 19 April 1909, the eldest of four children of Conel William Long Alexander (1879–1920), professor of engineering at University College, Cork, and his wife, Hilda Barbara Bennett (1881–1964), of ...

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Alexander, Frederick Matthias (1869–1955), originator of the Alexander technique and teacher  

Malcolm Williamson

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Alexander, Frederick Matthias (1869–1955), originator of the Alexander technique and teacher, was born on 20 January 1869 at Wynyard, north-west Tasmania, the eldest of seven children of John Alexander (1843–1936), farmer and blacksmith, and his wife, Betsy Brown (d. 1923), a nurse....

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Alexander, Frederick Matthias (1869–1955)  

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Frederick Matthias Alexander (1869–1955) by Anthony Ludovici, 1926 © Anthony Ludovici

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Alexander, William Whiteway (1852–1933), athletics administrator  

Wilfred Morgan

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Alexander, William Whiteway (1852–1933), athletics administrator, was born on 3 December 1852 at Park Hill Farm, Andover, Hampshire, the younger son of James Whiteway Alexander (b. 1821/2), who later became an inn-keeper. Most of his boyhood was spent on the Isle of Wight...

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Allardice, Robert Barclay [Captain Barclay] (1779–1854)  

Maker: Solomon? Williams

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Robert Barclay Allardice [Captain Barclay] (1779–1854) by Solomon? Williams, pubd 1809 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Allardice, Robert Barclay [known as Captain Barclay] (1779–1854), pedestrian  

Leslie Stephen

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Allardice, Robert Barclay [known as Captain Barclay] (1779–1854), pedestrian, was the son of Robert Barclay (1731–1797) of Ury, Kincardineshire, founder of the town of Stonehaven, who took the name of Allardice upon his marriage to Sarah Ann Allardice (d. 1833) in 1776. The marriage was dissolved in 1793, and ...

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Allchurch, Ivor John (1929–1997), footballer  

Huw Richards

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Allchurch, Ivor John (1929–1997), footballer, was born on 16 October 1929 at 66 Waunwen Road, Swansea, the sixth of the seven children of Charles Wilfred (Charlie) Allchurch, furnaceman, and his wife, Mabel, formerly Miller, née Smith. His parents were natives of Dudley who had moved to ...

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Allen, Sir George Oswald Browning [Gubby] (1902–1989)  

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Sir George Oswald Browning Allen (1902–1989) by unknown photographer, c. 1932–3 Marylebone Cricket Club Photo Library

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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 ...