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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: C. B. Fry, Harry Goodhart, Fred Spiksley, Claude Ashton, Harry Daft, George Cotterill, R. E. Foster, G. O. Smith, Percy Melmoth Walters, Charles Bambridge, Percy de Paravicini, George Brann, Arthur Melmoth Walters, Max Woosnam, William Cobbold, Roger Winlaw, Andrew Watson, Charles Wreford-Brown, Charles Plumpton Wilson, Alfred Bower, Cuthbert Burnup, Bernard Joy, Kenneth Hegan, George Smithies, Wilf Waller, George Raikes, Nils Middelboe, John Veitch, R. Cunliffe Gosling, John Frederick Peel Rawlinson, Robert Mills-Roberts, John Dixon, Andrew Amos, Leslie Gay, Arthur Henfrey, Charles William Miller, Benjamin Howard Baker, Tinsley Lindley, Lewis Vaughan Lodge, Hubert Ashton, Bertie Corbett, Thelwell Pike, Geoffrey Plumpton Wilson, John Smith, Norman Creek, Arthur Bambridge, Segar Bastard, Elphinstone Jackson, Doctor Greenwood, Anthony Hossack, Walter Gilliat, James Johnson, Ernest Bambridge, Percy Fairclough, John Challen, Arthur Knight, Billy Moon, Charles Campbell, Humphrey Jones, Graham Doggart, Norman Bailey, Norman Cooper, Frank Hartley, Basil Patchitt, John Knight, Ralph Squire, John Lambie, Gordon Wright, Edgar Shearer, David Allan, William Oakley, John Sutcliffe. Excerpt: Charles Burgess Fry, known as C. B. Fry (25 April 1872 - 7 September 1956) was an English polymath; an outstanding sportsman, politician, diplomat, academic, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer. John Arlott summed him up thus: "Charles Fry could be autocratic, angry and self-willed: he was also magnanimous, extravagant, generous, elegant, brilliant - and fun he was probably the most variously gifted Englishman of any age." Neville Cardus wrote that he was "a national gallery and a theatre and a forum." Fry's achievements on the sporting field included representing England at both cricket...
