Left-handed cricketer. Has played for Middlesex County Cricket Club and has captained England.
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Prince Monolulu
Horse racing tipster. Â Born as Peter Carl Mackay in what are now the US Virgin Isles, into a horse-breeding family, though his story was that he came from Africa, via an interesting narrative inclu...
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First cricket test match in England
Played between national teams, test matches are the longest and considered to be the highest standard. The first 3 officially recognised test matches took place in in Melbourne, Australia, in: 1877...
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Laurence Sinclair Rees
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
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Barlow, 'Duke of Shoreditch'
From British History on-line: Â "In the reign of Henry VIII., when Shoreditch was still a mere waste of fields, dotted with windmills and probably, like Islington (fields, much frequented by archers...
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Sir Francis Chichester
Pioneer aviator, sailor and author. Single-handedly circumnavigated the World, 1966 - 67.
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