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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: 45. Chapters: W. G. Grace, Quintin Hogg, Robert Sandilands Frowd Walker, Edgar Lubbock, C. W. Alcock, Julian Sturgis, Henry Wace, James Kirkpatrick, 8th Baronet, William Lindsay, Francis Birley, Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird, Alfred Thornton, Charles Meysey-Thompson, Alexander Morten, Frederick Maddison, William Crake, Hubert Heron, John Hawley Edwards, Charles Ashpitel Denton, Leonard Howell, Thomas Bridges Hughes, Reginald Courtenay Welch, Morton Betts, Edward Ernest Bowen, William Kenyon-Slaney, Alfred Stratford, Charles Chenery, John Wylie, Thomas Hooman, Francis Heron, Arnold Hills, Robert Vidal, Robert Kingsford, W. D. O. Greig, Albert Meysey-Thompson, William Maynard, Jarvis Kenrick, Arthur J Stanley, Alexander Bonsor, Charles Wollaston, Frederick Green. Excerpt: William Gilbert ("WG") Grace, MRCS, LRCP (born 18 July 1848 at Downend, near Bristol; died 23 October 1915 at Mottingham, Kent) was an English amateur cricketer who is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest players of all time, having especial significance in terms of his importance to the development of the sport. Universally known as "WG," his initials being a sobriquet, he played first-class cricket for a record-equalling 44 seasons, from 1865 to 1908, during which he captained England, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, the Gentlemen, MCC, the United South of England Eleven and several other teams. He came from a cricketing family in which one of his elder brothers was EM Grace and his younger brother was Fred Grace; their joint appearance for England in 1880 was the first time three brothers played together in Test cricket. Right-handed as both batsman and bowler, Grace dominated the sport during his career and left, through his technical innovations and enormous influence, a lasting legacy. An outstanding all-rounder, he excelled at all the essen...
