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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: 64. Chapters: People from Chipping Campden, People from Cirencester, People from Lechlade, People from Tetbury, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Warren Hastings, John Keble, Wally Hammond, Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet, Robert Crowley, Peggy Cripps, Cozy Powell, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ernest Henry Wilson, Cecil Sandford, Jet Black, Barry Miles, George Ballard, Mark Gardiner, Pamela Brown, Quentin Letts, Samuel Bowly, David Mabberley, John Oldham, Thomas Ruthall, Dudley Graham Johnson, Jack Bowles, Tommy English, John L. Dunlop, Rod Keller, Brian Trubshaw, Henry Kingscote, Peter H. Jackson, David Hemery, David Graham, Reginald Arkell, Charles King-Turner, Sam Cook, Jake Meyer, Margaret Calkin James, Edwin Ransford, Samuel Lysons, Robert Payne Smith, Michael R. Angus, Bartholomew Price, Charles Daubeny, Bob Wilber, Alfred Ernest Ind, Nick Anstee, Edward Haygarth, Charles Allen, Mike Patto, David Scott Blackhall, Gabrielle Glaister, Nicola Cavendish, Annabel Tiffin, S. H. Hooke, Edwin Eden, Royce Mills, John Churton Collins, Cindy Jefferies, John Small, George Whitmore, Grace Barnsley, Francis Raymond Walsh, John Clinch, Thomas Heath Haviland, Sr., Lucy Soutter, David Loder, Sarah Oram, Steve Mills, Godfrey Davies, William Baillie. Excerpt: Walter Reginald "Wally" Hammond (19 June 1903 - 1 July 1965) was an English Test cricketer who played for Gloucestershire in a career that lasted from 1920 to 1951. Beginning his career as a professional, he later became an amateur and was appointed captain of England. Primarily a middle-order batsman, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack described him in his obituary as one of the four best batsmen in the history of cricket. He was considered to be the best English batsman of the 1930s by commentators and those with whom he played; they also said that he was one of the best slip fielders ever. Hammond was an eff...
