Professional cricketer who played for Surrey 1905-34 and for England in 61 Test matches 1908-30. Born John Berry Hobbs in Cambridge. Knighted 1953. Died at home in Hove.
Our image shows Hobbs c.1920.
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Sir Jack Hobbs
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Hobbs Gates
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Dulwich Hamlet Football Club
Football club formed by Lorraine 'Pa' Wilson. In 1907 the club joined both the Isthmian League and the Spartan League, leaving the latter at the end of the 1907–08 season.
2 memorials
Sir Thomas Sopwith
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1 memorial
Francis Cranmer Penrose
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2 memorials
Eton Mission Rowing Club
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1 memorial
William Henry Edmunds
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
War dead, WW1
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Charles H. Osmer
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1 memorial
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1 memorial
Edvard Grieg
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William H. F. Williams
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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