Person    | Male  Born 23/6/1916  Died 6/9/1990

Sir Leonard Hutton

Categories: Sport / Games

Cricketer. Born Yorkshire. Played as an opening batsman for Yorkshire 1934-55, and for England in 79 Test matches 1937 -55. Set a record in 1938 for the highest individual innings in a Test match, scoring 364 runs against Australia. Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack described him as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.

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Sir Leonard Hutton

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Sir Leonard Hutton - brick sculpture

Unveiled by Hutton's widow.

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Sir Leonard Hutton - diagram

We assume that if one added all the digits together the total would be 364 ru...

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Sir Leonard Hutton - plaque

The "save the Oval" campaign was not, as we first thought, made necessary by ...

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The Ring / Surrey Chapel / Rowland Hill's Chapel

The Ring / Surrey Chapel / Rowland Hill's Chapel

On the site now occupied by TfL's Palastre House.  Built in fields as an octagonal independent chapel by Reverend Rowland Hill, no relative to Sir Rowland Hill, although the PO man is said to have ...

Building, Sport / Games

4 memorials
Doggett's Coat and Badge

Doggett's Coat and Badge

The prize for a rowing race for Thames watermen.  Claimed as the oldest race in the world, it was founded by Thomas Doggett in 1715, to commemorate the anniversary of the accession of King George I...

Event, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Steve Redgrave

Steve Redgrave

Rower.  Born Buckinghamshire.  Won Olympic gold: 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 - this man can row!  But what his connection is to Southwark or the South Bank, we can not discover.

Person, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Fred Perry

Fred Perry

Lawn tennis and table tennis player. Born Frederick John Perry at 33 Carrington Road, Stockport. Table tennis was his first sport and he became world singles champion in 1929. Between 1933 and 1936...

Person, Sport / Games, Australia, USA

2 memorials
Horace Wyndham Thomas

Horace Wyndham Thomas

A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.

Person, Sport / Games

War dead, WW1
1 memorial