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Cliff Bowen
Clifford Alfred Bowen (3 January 1875 – 30 April 1929) was a Wales, Welsh international rugby union wing who played for club rugby for Llanelli RFC, Llanelli and international rugby for Wales national rugby union team, Wales. He was also a keen cricketer, playing for Llanelli and Carmarthenshire County Cricket Club, Carmarthenshire in the Minor Counties Cricket Championship. Cricket Archives Rugby career Bowen was first selected for the Wales international team for the opening match of the 1896 Home Nations Championship, against England. Bowen was brought in at threequarters opposite Newport RFC, Newport's Bert Dauncey on the wing with Owen Badger and Welsh captain Arthur Gould (rugby player), Arthur 'Monkey' Gould at centre. Bowen and Daun ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sketch
''The Sketch'' was a British illustrated weekly journal. It ran for 2,989 issues between 1 February 1893 and 17 June 1959. It was published by the Illustrated London News Company and was primarily a society magazine with regular features on royalty, aristocracy and high society, as well as theatre, cinema and the arts. It had a high photographic content with many studies of society ladies and their children as well as regular layouts of point to point racing meetings and similar events. Clement Shorter and William Ingram started ''The Sketch'' in 1893. Shorter was the first editor, from 1893 to 1900, succeeded by John Latey (until his death in 1902) and then Keble Howard.Philip Waller, ''Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870–1918'', pp. 351–2 Bruce Ingram was editor from 1905 to 1946. The magazine is remembered for first publishing the illustrations of Bonzo the dog by George E. Studdy (from 1921). It featured series of short stories with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |