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My interests include cricket, weather and climatology, SF and fantasy, and contract bridge. A fuller list can be found in my
LiveJournal profile here:
http://jhall1.livejournal.com/profile
A list of the articles that I have created (or in a few cases carried out a major expansion of) follows.
Done
Cricket-related
Biographies
Players and umpires:
the 19th century
cricketers
Alfred Mynn ,
George Griffith ,
George Pinder ,
William Yardley and
Richard Daft ,
the female cricketers
Enid Bakewell ,
Sheila Hill and
Netta Rheinberg ,
the cricket umpires
Syd Buller ,
Charlie Elliott and
Bill Reeves ,
the Surrey cricketers
Tom Barling ,
Tom Rushby ,
Eddie Watts ,
Alan Peach ,
Bob Gregory ,
Stan Squires ,
Tom Shepherd ,
Jack Parker ,
David Fletcher ,
Ted Brooks ,
Fred Stedman ,
Grahame Clinton ,
Tom Clark ,
Cyril Wilkinson (major expansion),
James Street ,
Monty Garland-Wells ,
Livingstone Walker ,
Fred Holland ,
Ted Barratt ,
David Gibson ,
Mike Edwards ,
Matthew Spriegel ,
Stuart Meaker ,
Stewart Storey ,
Charles Hoare ,
Frederick Miller ,
Sam Curran ,
Michael Barton , and
Joe O'Gorman (also a music hall entertainer),
the Somerset cricketer and writer
R. C. Robertson-Glasgow ,
the Essex cricketer
Charles Kortright ,
the Sussex cricketers
Ken Suttle ,
Harry Parks ,
George Cox senior and
George Cox junior ,
the Hampshire cricketer
Jack Newman ,
Frank Cobden , of "Cobden's Match" fame,
Samuel Butler ,
Brian Boobbyer ,
Frank Parr ,
considerably expanded
Ranji Hordern ,
Gerry Alexander and
Michael Anderton (psychologist)
Administrators, writers, commentators and scorers:
the cricketing knights
Francis Lacey and
Frederick Toone ,
the noted editor of Wisden
Sydney Pardon (replacing an existing single sentence stub),
the cricket writers
John Woodcock (cricket writer) ,
Alan Gibson ,
A.A. Thomson ,
Ralph Barker ,
Denzil Batchelor ,
Dudley Carew ,
Louis Duffus ,
Gerald Howat ,
Sir Home Gordon ,
Simon Wilde ,
Herbert Farjeon ,
Ralph Dellor and
Michael Melford , and expanded
Reginald Shirley Brooks and
Martin Johnson (writer) ,
the cricket historian, administrator and coach
Harry Altham ,
Albert Craig (The Surrey Poet) ,
the BBC radio cricket scorer
Arthur Wrigley and his TV counterpart
Roy Webber ,
the writer and Surrey scorer
Keith Booth (scorer) ,
the Indian cricket journalist
Dicky Rutnagur ,
the commentators on cricket and other subjects
Howard Marshall (broadcaster) ,
Robert Hudson (broadcaster) and
Rex Alston ,
the economist, cartoonist, editor of Punch and writer on cricket and other subjects
Bernard Hollowood ,
the bibliographer
E.W. Padwick .
Other
On bridge
the bridge writer
Hugh Kelsey ,
Gold Cup (bridge) ,
Raymond Brock ,
Dr Paul Stern ,
Tony Priday ,
Nicola Smith ,
Michelle Brunner ,
Maria Erhart ,
Patrick Jourdain ,
World Bridge Games ,
Richard Lederer
Albert Dormer .
On other subjects
George Edwards (aviation) ,
the climatologist
Gordon Manley ,
the 18th century meteorologist
Thomas Barker ,
the radio presenter
Jack de Manio ,
the Welsh essayist and biographer
Byron Rogers (author) ,
the London-resident Persian writer and folksinger
Shusha Guppy ,
the writer of humourous verse
Patrick Barrington ,
the producer of revues, playwright and writer
Herbert Farjeon ,
Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth , 17th century politician, nobleman and member of the
Royal Society ,
The Western Brothers .
To do
Cricket
early Surrey captains
F Burbridge (1858-1865)
E Dowson (1866)
W J Collyer (1867)
C Calvert (1868)
J C Gregory (1871)
George Strachan (1872-1875, 1877-1878) - expand
A Chandler (1876) - expand
A. P. Lucas (1879) - expand
John Shuter - expand
Surrey players with 100+ f-c appearances for the county
A. Baker
Tom Barling (expand)
W.E. Davis
E.G. Goatly
H.S. Harrison
Richard Humphrey (cricketer, born 1848)
Robin Jackman (expand)
G.J. Whittaker (expand)
Younis Ahmed (expand)
Other
Bridge
Weather
Other