The 1779 English cricket season was the eighth in which matches have been awarded retrospective first-class cricket status. The scorecards of five first-class...
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Events from the year 1779 in Great Britain. Monarch – George III Prime Minister – Frederick North, Lord North (Tory) 9 January – First Anglo-Maratha War:...
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The 1778 English cricket season was the seventh in which matches have been awarded retrospective first-class cricket status. The scorecards of five first-class...
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The 1780 English cricket season was the ninth in which matches have been awarded retrospective first-class cricket status. The scorecards of four first-class...
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Joseph Dennis (cricketer) (category 1779 births)
Dennis (christened 6 January 1779; died 16 November 1831) was an English first-class cricketer. He played for Nottingham Cricket Club from 1800 to 1829. A...
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Westminster v Charterhouse, 1794 (redirect from First school cricket match)
(1780–1865) MP for Caernarvonshire 1794 English cricket season The Earliest School Match H T Waghorn Dawn of Cricket (1906) p 132 "Blake, Arthur Garland (BLK796AG)"...
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The purpose of this list is to identify all historically significant English cricket clubs and teams which played in significant matches, some of which...
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and retired academic Grenville Hair (1931–1968), English footballer Thomas Hair (musician) (1779–1854), British violinist and Northumbrian smallpipes...
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John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset (category English cricket administrators)
and cricket, on Dorset's recommendation, was taking its place.[citation needed] In 1786, The Times reported on a cricket match played by some English gentlemen...
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Women's cricket is the team sport of cricket when played by women. Its rules are almost identical to those in the game played by men, the main change being...
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List of Old Carthusians (category Use British English from February 2023)
cricketer (Kent County Cricket Club, Hong Kong national cricket team, and Marylebone Cricket Club) Ernest Powell (1861–1928), English cricketer who played...
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Grenada (category Countries and territories where English is an official language)
British rule continued until 1974 (except for a brief French takeover between 1779 and 1783). However, on 3 March 1967, it was granted full autonomy over its...
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(1604–1663/1664), writer, diarist and cleric Elizabeth Amherst (c. 1716–1779), poet and naturalist Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), poet and novelist, Lucky...
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1772. The list is by season, this being the season in which the player's name first appears in sources. Cricket underwent radical changes during the 18th...
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George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (category Cricket patrons)
of Bedford, and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, Halifax was keen on cricket. The earliest surviving record of his involvement in the sport comes from...
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List of Pawn Stars episodes (section Season 1 (2009))
as Season 3. Note: The episodes up to and including "Chummobile" are included in Volume 3 on iTunes, with the remaining episodes selling as Season 4....
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Elizabeth Smith-Stanley, Countess of Derby (category 18th-century English women)
children. Lady Derby was popular among society and she organised a ladies cricket match. She was a leader of fashion alongside the Duchess of Devonshire...
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John Small (cricketer) (redirect from John Small (cricket))
team being rated the (unofficial) Champion County in 10 seasons: 1766–1771, 1776–1777, 1779 and 1783. He died at Petersfield, where he was in residence...
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1780 in Great Britain: Other years 1778 | 1779 | 1780 | 1781 | 1782 Countries of the United Kingdom Scotland Sport 1780 English cricket season...
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roast beef at the Admiral Rodney. Before football became popular, the cricket season ran from April to October and, at a time when stockingers and others...
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University of Pennsylvania (section Cricket)
River in 1872, Penn played cricket at one of the local clubs, Belmont Cricket Club, Merion Cricket Club, Germantown Cricket Club, or at Haverford College...
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former mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania Sir Thomas McMahon, 2nd Baronet (1779–1860), Lieutenant-General in the British Army; full brother of Sir William...
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Henry Attfield (category Use British English from March 2016)
Laleham Burway in July 1777; and again at Broadhalfpenny Down in August 1779. In June 1780, he played for the Duke of Dorset's XI against Sir Horatio...
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with Scott Thorson Belle (2013) – British period drama film inspired by the 1779 painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle beside her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray...
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Gothic novel The Champion of Virtue (anonymously), later known as The Old English Baron. 22 January – Joseph Hume, doctor and politician (died 1855) 3 February...
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This is a list of English cricketers who played first-class cricket between the 1772 and 1786 English cricket seasons. This spans the period between first...
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Regency era (redirect from English Regency)
1814. These races are the St Leger Stakes (first run in 1776), The Oaks (1779), the Epsom Derby (1780), the 2,000 Guineas Stakes (1809) and the 1,000 Guineas...
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618 To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee 1896 3.015 2.097 1755 1779 To make One's Toilette — after Death F22.05.016 1935 3.101 7.087 485 471...
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company director, and politician Guy Wilson (cricketer) (1882–1917), English cricket player Guy Wilson (actor) (born 1985), American actor H. Abram Wilson...
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