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Tim Lamb
Timothy Michael Lamb (born 24 March 1953) is an English sports administrator and former cricketer who played for a decade in County cricket for Middlesex and Northamptonshire as a bowler. After retiring from playing, he became an administrator, serving the Middlesex County Cricket Club, the Test and County Cricket Board (TCCB) and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). His most notable cricket administrative roles were as chief executive of the TCCB and its successor ECB from 1996 to 2004. He later became the chief executive of the Sport and Recreation Alliance (formerly the CCPR) from 2005 until 2014. He left the Sport and Recreation Alliance and set uTML Sports Connections a sports consultancy. He is also a member of the Cabinet Office Sport Honours Committee. Early life and education Lamb was born in Hartford, Cheshire in 1953, the second son of Foster Lamb, later to be the second Baron Rochester. His older brother, David Lamb, became the third Baron Rochester in 2017. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hartford, Cheshire
Hartford is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It lies at the intersection of the A559 road and the West Coast Main Line (between Liverpool and Crewe) and is less than south west of the town of Northwich. It forms part of the Weaver Vale parliamentary constituency. According to the 2011 Census, the population of the parish was 5,558. Hartford is situated in the Cheshire Plain to the south west of the town of Northwich, and is surrounded by the parishes of Weaverham to the north, Kingsmead and Davenham to the east, Whitegate and Marton to the south and Cuddington to the west. History Hartford was recorded in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086, when the Manor was held by Gilbert de Venables as part of the Barony of Kinderton. Prior to the reign of Edward III it was held by a family who assumed the local name, from which it passed to the Horton, Massey, Holcroft, Marbury and Davies famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Queen's College, Oxford
The Queen's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. The college was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Philippa of Hainault. It is distinguished by its predominantly neoclassical architecture, which includes buildings designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor. In 2018, the college had an endowment of £291 million, making it the fourth-wealthiest college (after Christ Church, St. John's, and All Souls). History The college was founded in 1341 as "Hall of the Queen's scholars of Oxford" by Robert de Eglesfield (d'Eglesfield), chaplain to the Queen, Philippa of Hainault, after whom the hall was named. Robert's aim was to provide clergymen for his native Cumberland and where he lived in Westmorland (both part of modern Cumbria). In addition, the college was to provide charity for the poor. The college's coat of arms is that of the founder; it differs slightly from his family's coat of arms, which did not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Talbot(sports Administrator)
Margaret Talbot is an American essayist and non-fiction writer. She is also the daughter of the veteran Warner Bros. actor Lyle Talbot, whom she profiled in an October 2012 ''The New Yorker'' article and in her book ''The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century'' (Riverhead Books, 2012). She is also the co-author with her brother David Talbot of a book about political activists in the 1960s, ''By the Light of Burning Dreams'' (HarperCollins, 2021). Life She is a staff writer at ''The New Yorker''. She has also written for ''The New Republic'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', and ''The Atlantic Monthly''. and was a regular panelist on the '' Slate'' podcast "The DoubleX Gabfest". Her first book, ''The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century'', was published in November 2012 by Riverhead. Her second book, co-authored with David Talbot, "By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution," was pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Collier (sports Administrator)
David Gordon Collier OBE (born 22 April 1955) is an English sports administrator and businessman. Collier became the second chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) when he was appointed in October 2004, succeeding Tim Lamb. He has a business background having spent ten years working in the travel and leisure industry, including posts such as a marketing manager within a small section of Sema Group plc, an Anglo French computer systems company (1986–1988), senior vice-president of American Airlines (1988–1992) and managing director of Servisair plc (1992–1993). Education Collier was educated at Loughborough Grammar School, a day and boaŕding independent school for boys in the market town of Loughborough in Leicestershire, followed by Loughborough University, where he read Sports Science and Recrwational Management. Life and career Collier gained considerable cricket administration experience with four counties – as assistant secretary of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The England and Wales Cricket Board is the governing body for professional and recreational cricket in England and Wales. It replaced the former Test and County Cricket Board in 1996. The Chief Executive is responsible for the day-to-day running of the organization. England and Wales England and Wales () is one of the three legal jurisdictions of the United Kingdom. It covers the constituent countries England and Wales and was formed by the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. The substantive law of the jurisdiction is Eng ... British cricket people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Smith (cricketer)
Alan Christopher Smith (born 25 October 1936), often known as A. C. Smith, is an English former Test cricketer, who appeared in six Tests matches for England. Primarily a wicket-keeper, Smith was also a capable right-handed middle-order batsman and right-arm seam bowler. Very unusually for a regular wicket-keeper, he was sometimes selected by Warwickshire as a frontline bowler. He was the last amateur to play for England, before the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) abolished such a status. Life and career Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Brasenose College, Oxford, Smith scored his maiden first-class century (106, opening the batting) for Oxford University against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1958. He won blues 1957–1960, and captained Oxford University 1959–1960. Against Hampshire in 1959, Smith captained Oxford, kept wicket and scored centuries in both innings (145 and 124). Against the Free Foresters in 1960, Charles Fry's deputising as wicket-kee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Packham
Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Frederick Packham (born 1941) is a retired British army officer who also served as Secretary of Middlesex County Cricket Club. He retired from the British army in 1985 and succeeded Tim Lamb as Secretary of Middlesex County Cricket Club Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Middlesex which has effectively been subsumed within the ceremonial ... in March 1988. During his tenure of office, Middlesex won the NatWest Trophy at Lord's. He resigned in April 1989 and was replaced permanently by Joe Hardstaff in July 1989. References External links 1941 Births 1941 births Living people English cricket administrators Middlesex Regiment officers Secretaries of Middlesex County Cricket Club Queen's Regiment officers 20th-century British Army personnel {{England-cricket-bio-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Alan Wright (cricket Administrator)
Alan J Wright (1938–2013) was an English cricket administrator for the Middlesex County Cricket Club. External links British_Airways obituary February 2013*Middlesex CCC Middlesex County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Middlesex which has effectively been subsumed within the ceremonial ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Wright, Alan 1938 births 2013 deaths English cricket administrators Secretaries of Middlesex County Cricket Club Date of death missing Place of birth missing 20th-century English businesspeople ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Universities Cricket Team
The British Universities cricket team was a cricket team whose players were drawn from university students studying in Great Britain. The team played under the title of Combined Universities until 1995. The team played List A cricket from 1975 to 1998 and first-class cricket from 1993 to 2006. History Combined Universities' first matches in top-level cricket came in the 1975 Benson & Hedges Cup, a List A competition. In their first game, on 3 May, they beat Worcestershire County Cricket Club by 66 runs, thanks largely to an outstanding all-round performance by future Pakistan captain Imran Khan, who top-scored with 35 runs and took four wickets for four runs from 8.3 overs as Worcestershire were bowled out for 92 runs. The team played as an Oxford and Cambridge Universities side initially.Today's cricket, ''The Times'', 1975-05-03, p.22. Woodcock J (1975) An unlikely double by Worcestershire, ''The Times'', 1975-05-05, p.7. Players from universities other than Oxford and Cambrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durham MCC University
Durham MCC University (previously known as Durham University Centre of Cricketing Excellence) is a cricket coaching centre based at Durham University in Durham, County Durham, England, and the name under which the university's cricket team plays. History The coaching centre is largely funded by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). As of 2012 (with the inclusion of Cardiff South Wales and Leeds/Bradford), they are one of six MCC University teams in England who are considered a first-class team when playing against other first-class sides. This means that a game against another university would ''not'' be considered first class; only matches against a first-class county are accorded this status. Durham are one of only two MCCU sides to be drawn from a single university (the other being Loughborough). The cricket coaching at the MCCU was overseen from its inception in 2001 by coach and former Test player Graeme Fowler, the university's head coach from 1996, until he stepped dow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Central Council Of Physical Recreation (UK)
The Sport and Recreation Alliance, formerly known as the Central Council of Physical Recreation, is the representative body for national sports organisations in the United Kingdom. The Sport and Recreation Alliance is the main body for sport and recreation in the UK. It represents over 320 member organisations. The organisation speaks and acts to promote, protect and develop the interests of sport and physical recreation at all levels. It is completely independent of any form of government control, has no responsibility for allocating funds, is strictly non-party and will support or oppose proposed measures only on the basis of their perceived value to sport and recreation Its members range from large national governing bodies of sport such as the Football Association and the Rugby Football Union to smaller members such as stoolball or kitesurfing Kiteboarding or kitesurfing is a sport that involves using wind power with a large power kite to pull a rider across a water ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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