Radley College, formally St Peter's College, Radley or the College of St. Peter at Radley, is a public school (independent boarding school) for boys near the village of

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, in

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, in the

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. It was founded in 1847. The school covers including playing fields, a golf course, a lake, and farmland. Before the counties of England were re-organised, the school was in

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. Radley is one of four public schools which have retained the boys-only, boarding-only tradition, the others being

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, and

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. Formerly this group included

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, although it is currently undergoing a transition to co-ed status. Of the seven public schools addressed by the

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four have since become co-educational:

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(1976),

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(1971),

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(1973), and

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(2014). For the academic year 2022/23, Radley charged boarders up to £14,850 per term, or £44,550 per annum. It is a member of the

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. In May 2025, Radley College announced one of the largest mergers in the independent charitable schools industry with Prep Schools Trust (PST). The merger deed, which will take effect formally in September 2025, will see funds, staff and ownership of the prep schools within PST to be transferred to the Charity of St Peter's College, Radley.

History

Radley was founded in 1847 by William Sewell (1804–79) and

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(1810–81). The first pupil was Samuel Reynolds, who in 1897 wrote his reminiscences of school life. The school was originally housed in Radley Hall, now known as "Mansion". Radley Hall was built in the 1720s for the Stonehouse family. Later in the 18th century the estate passed to the Bowyer family, who commissioned

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to re-design the grounds. After the school was founded, extensive building work took place, beginning with Chapel (replaced by the current building in 1895), F Social and Octagon (the earliest living accommodation for the boys), Clock Tower, and in 1910 the dining hall (Hall). Building work has continued throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, with three new Socials, a weights-room/gym, a rowing tank, a theatre, and a

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court being completed since 2006. The Science Block was also expanded and refurbished in 2019. The grounds include a lake, a golf course and woodland. On 31 August 2017, ''

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'' reported that a whistleblower had suggested that teachers had helped their students in an art GCSE exam. Investigations by the exam board found no fault beyond a minor technical breach of exam regulations. Radley College issued a statement expressing full support for staff and procedures both within the art department and across the school. On 6 July 2018, pupils hired a plane to tow a banner reading "Make Radley Great Again" over the school, reportedly in response to changes to the school branding and staff during John Moule's time as warden.

School terms

There are three academic terms in the year: * The

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, from early September to mid-December. * The

Lent term Lent term, named for Lent, the six-week fasting period before Easter, is the name of the winter academic term at the following British universities: *University of Cambridge *Canterbury Christ Church University * University of Lancaster *Univer ...

, from early January to late March. * The

Summer term Summer term is the summer academic term at many British schools and universities and elsewhere in the world. In the UK, 'Summer term' runs from the Easter holiday until the end of the academic year in June or July, and so corresponds to the Easte ...

, from mid-April to late June or early July.

Radley formalities

Radley College has its own specialised terminology and formalities, similar to the notions of

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. For example, all teachers are referred to as " dons", and female teachers and members of staff are addressed only as "ma'am"; the

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is known as the "

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are known as "socials", with their masters being known as "tutors" and their head prefects as "pups";

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earned by pups, top sportsmen, and other distinguished boys have flat bottoms and are known as "strings" ("social strings" if earned for distinction within the social, "college strings" if earned for distinction within the wider college); and the five year-groups, from first to last, are called "shell", "remove", "fifth", "6.1", and "6.2". During the Michaelmas and Lent terms,

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are worn over uniforms, while during the summer term, shirts are worn without ties, jackets, or gowns (known as "Summer Dress" or, more officially, as "Shirt-Sleeve Order"). A formal house meeting is held once a week, known as "social prayers" (an assembly usually with a talk or presentation); an informal house meeting with food, known as "cocoa", takes place every evening; a weekend which a boy would usually stay in school for but has been allowed to leave on is known as a "privi" (short for "privilege weekend" as these can be cancelled if a boy is subject to disciplinary proceedings); and the final day of the academic year is known as "gaudy", from the

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meaning "rejoice thou".

Socials

There are 11 socials at Radley, each housing approximately 70 boys and distinguished by the colours of their members' ties. They are each known by a single letter, although they are formally named after their tutor (e.g., H, formally Wood's Social). When the college opened, most boys were living together in College, but they were under the care of six "social tutors" and the term "social" then referred to all the boys under the care of one tutor. When D Social was built in 1886, all the boys and their tutor were united in their own living quarters and so the word "social" came to mean the building and all of its inhabitants. Similar to

's houses and their dames, each social at Radley has a matron known as the "PHM" ("pastoral housemistress"), whose role is central.

Academic aspects

The school was inspected by the independent schools' Inspectorate in February 2008. The inspection report rated the school's standard of education as "outstanding", the highest rating. There was a subsequent inspection by ISI in 2013, and a further inspection in 2023. In 2012, the Independent review of A level results, based on government issued statistics, ranked Radley 31st in the UK, ahead of Malvern (32nd),

(34th),

(73rd),

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(74th),

(80th) and

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(89th) By 2019 they were still in the top 100 but had dropped to 75th place.

Sports

Sports played at the College are rugby football in the

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, hockey,

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and football in the Lent Term and cricket, rowing, lawn tennis, and athletics in the Summer Term. Other sports played include badminton, basketball,

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, cross-country, fencing,

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, lacrosse, rackets, real tennis, rugby sevens, squash, water polo, swimming and sailing.

Rugby

Rugby is the major sport of the Michaelmas term. The school fields 23 rugby teams on most Saturdays of the Michaelmas term and on some Thursdays. The Master in charge of Rugby is

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loose-head prop Nick Wood, OR.

Rowing

Radley is recognised for its

, having won events at

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on 6 occasions. Only

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, and St Edward's have won more events at the Regatta.

Cricket

Cricket is played in the summer term. Some Old Radleians have progressed to play cricket for England or captain county level cricket teams.

Field hockey

Eighteen hockey teams are fielded during the Lent term. Teams train on three Astroturf pitches and a full-sized indoor hockey pitch. Radley takes part in the Independent Schools Hockey League.

Football

Twelve football teams are fielded in the Lent term. Radley competes in ISFA Southern Independent Schools Lent Term League. There is a yearly pre-season training camp before term starts.

Other sports

Sports such as

, rackets, sailing, badminton, and

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are represented, as well as

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. A

court opened in July 2008, which made Radley the only school in the world to have fives, squash, badminton, tennis, racquets, and real tennis courts all on campus.

Southern Railway Schools Class

The school lent its name to a steam locomotive (Engine 930; ''Radley'') of Southern Railway's Class V (''Schools''), which were named for English public schools.

Price-fixing cartel case (2005)

In 2005 Radley College was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools which were found guilty by the

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of running an illegal price-fixing cartel which had allowed them to drive up fees. Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £21,360 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a Trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared. In their defence, Jean Scott, the head of the

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, said that independent schools had previously been exempt from the anti-cartel rules applied to business; they were following a long-established procedure in sharing the information with one another and they were unaware of the current law.

List of Wardens

* R C Singleton (founder) (1847–1851) * W B Heathcote (1851–1852) * W M Sewell (founder) (1852–1861) * R W Norman (1861–1866) * W Wood (1866–1870) * C Martin (1871–1879) * R J Wilson (1880–1888) * H Lewis Thompson (1888–1896) * T Field (1897–1913) * E Gordon Selwyn (1913–1919) * A Fox (1919–1925) * W H Ferguson (1925–1937) * J C Vaughan Wilkes (1937–1954) * W M M Milligan (1954–1968) * D R W Silk (1968–1991) * R M Morgan (1991–2000) * A W McPhail (2000–2014) * J S Moule (2014–Present)

Notable alumni

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, traveller and ornithologist *

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, comic writer and actor * Merton Barker, cricketer and field hockey player * Richard Beard, prize-winning author of fiction and non-fiction *

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, conductor * C. E. Bowden, pilot and pioneer of IC engined model flight and radio control *

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, writer *

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, documentary film maker *

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, orthopedic surgeon and author *

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, producer, Assembly Festival *

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, conductor and composer *

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politician * Collingwood Tinling, builder of first jet engine *

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, author and cricketer *

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, comedian * John Crabtree, lawyer and businessman;

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* Tim Crooks, Olympic rower *

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, cricketer * Norman Denny, author, translator of Victor Hugo's

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, musician *

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, former

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and former Australian High Commissioner to the Court of St James *

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, television presenter * Marc Edwards, sports correspondent with

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and

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) *

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, bridge player * George Freeman,

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Member of Parliament for Mid Norfolk *

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*Sir George Hollingbery, former

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, Hong Kong judge * Charles Hulse, cricketer * Ben Hutton, cricketer *

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, air vice marshal * Hugh Lindley-Jones, cricketer *

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* Archie Lorne, heir-apparent to the Dukedom of Argyll *

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Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth * Dick Lucas, evangelical Anglican preacher *

Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt (9 June 1886 – 15 August 1973) was a senior Royal Air Force commander. Early life He was the second son and the second of five children of the Rev. Thomas Arthur Ludlow-Hewitt (17 May 1850 - 16 ...

, air chief marshal * James Charles Macnab of Macnab, soldier and chief of

Clan Macnab Clan Macnab is a Highland Scottish clan. History Origins of the clan Traditional origins The name Macnab is derived from the Scottish Gaelic ''Mac An Aba'', which means ''child of the abbot''.Way, George and Squire, Romily. ''Collins Scottish ...

* Sir George Mallaby, public servant, High Commissioner to New Zealand * Robert Marshall, cricketer * Sir Charlie Mayfield, CEO of Waitrose and John Lewis Partnership * J.X. Merriman, South African statesman *

Harold Monro Harold Edward Monro (14 March 1879 – 16 March 1932) was an English poet born in Brussels, Belgium. As the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London, he helped many poets to bring their work before the public. Life and career Monro was born ...

, founder of the Poetry Bookshop * Lord Charles Montagu Douglas Scott, admiral *

Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Peter Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and a ...

, poet and former Poet Laureate *

Andrew Nairne Andrew Colin Nairne OBE (born 10 February 1960), is director of Kettle's Yard, the University of Cambridge’s modern and contemporary art gallery. Life and career Born in Guildford, Nairne graduated with an art history MA from the University of S ...

, director of

Kettle's Yard Kettle's Yard is an art gallery and house in Cambridge, England. The director of the art gallery is Andrew Nairne. Both the house and gallery reopened in February 2018 after an expansion of the facilities. History and overview Kettle's Yar ...

Sandy Nairne Alexander Robert Nairne (born 8 June 1953) is a British art historian and curator. From 2002 until February 2015 he was the director of the National Portrait Gallery, London. Life and career Nairne was responsible for the successful recovery o ...

, director of the

National Portrait Gallery National Portrait Gallery may refer to: * National Portrait Gallery (Australia), in Canberra * National Portrait Gallery (Sweden), in Mariefred *National Portrait Gallery (United States), in Washington, D.C. *National Portrait Gallery, London ...

*Sir

Christopher Nugee Sir Christopher George Nugee (born 23 January 1959 in London), officially styled Lord Justice Nugee, is a British lawyer who has served as a Lord Justice of Appeal of England and Wales since 2020. Early life and education Of Huguenot descent a ...

, Lord Justice of the

Court of Appeal (England and Wales) The Court of Appeal (formally "His Majesty's Court of Appeal in England", commonly cited as "CA", "EWCA" or "CoA") is the highest court within the Senior Courts of England and Wales, and second in the legal system of England and Wales only to ...

Edward Nugee Edward George "Ted" Nugee (9 August 1928 – 30 December 2014) was an English barrister. Nugee was described in his London '' Times'' obituary as "one of the pre-eminent Chancery barristers of his generation". He was involved in number of sign ...

, Barrister, Treasurer of the

Inner Temple The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, commonly known as the Inner Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court and is a professional association for barristers and judges. To be called to the Bar and practice as a barrister in England and Wa ...

*Lt Gen

Richard Nugee Lieutenant General Richard Edward Nugee, CB, CVO, CBE (born 3 June 1963) is a retired senior British Army officer. He served in several senior roles including Defence Services Secretary (2015–2016) and Chief of Defence People (2016–2020), ...

, British Army officer *

Owen Paterson Owen William Paterson (born 24 June 1956) is a British former politician who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2010 to 2012 and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2012 to 2014 under Prime Minist ...

, MP and former cabinet minister * Ian Payne, broadcaster *

James Pearce James, Jim or Jimmy Pearce may refer to: Politics * James Pearce (American politician) (1805–1862), American senator from Maryland * James Pearce (South Australian politician) (1825–1904), House of Assembly and Legislative Council member *Jim P ...

, journalist and presenter for

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*Sir

David Pountney Sir David Willoughby Pountney (born 10 September 1947) is a British-Polish theatre and opera director and libretto, librettist internationally known for his productions of rarely performed operas and new productions of classic works. He has di ...

, opera director *

Edgar Prestage Edgar Prestage (1869–1951) was a British historian and Portuguese scholar. Biography Born in Manchester on 20 July 1869, he served as professor of Portuguese at King's College, London between 1923 and 1936, and had authored over a hundred p ...

, historian and Portuguese scholar *

Dennis Price Dennistoun John Franklyn Rose Price (23 June 1915 – 6 October 1973) was an English actor. He played Louis Mazzini in the Ealing Studios film ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' (1949) and the omnicompetent valet Jeeves in 1960s television adaptation ...

, actor * Sir Nicholas Redmayne (1938–2008), stockbroker and investment banker * Michael Reeves, film director * S.H. Reynolds, clergyman * Professor Sir Mike Richards, UK National Cancer Director *

Lord Scarman Leslie George Scarman, Baron Scarman, (29 July 1911 – 8 December 2004) was an English judge and barrister who served as a Law Lord until his retirement in 1986. He was described as an "outstanding judicial figure, entrusted with the most hi ...

, judge *

Brough Scott John Brough Scott, Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 12 December 1942) is a British horse racing journalist, radio and television presenter, and former jockey. He is also the grandson and biographer of the noted First World War, Great War ...

, horse racing journalist, radio and television presenter, and former jockey *

James Scott James Scott may refer to: Entertainment * James Scott (composer) (1885–1938), African-American ragtime composer * James Scott (director) (born 1941), British filmmaker * James Scott (actor) (born 1979), British television actor * James Scott (Sh ...

, cricketer *

Tom Shakespeare Sir Thomas William Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet, (born 11 May 1966) is an English sociologist and bioethicist. He has achondroplasia and uses a wheelchair. Early life and education Son of Sir William Geoffrey Shakespeare, 2nd Baronet, and Su ...

, sociologist and broadcaster * Thomas Spyers, cricketer *

Clive Stafford Smith Clive Adrian Stafford Smith (born 9 July 1959) is a British attorney who specialises in the areas of civil rights and working against capital punishment in the United States. He worked to overturn death sentences for convicts, and helped foun ...

, campaigning lawyer *

Andrew Strauss Sir Andrew John Strauss (born 2 March 1977) is an English cricket administrator and former player, formerly the Director of Cricket for the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). He played county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club, Middl ...

, cricketer *

Will Stuart William James Stuart (born 12 July 1996) is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a prop for Premiership Rugby club Bath and the England national team. Early life Stuart started playing rugby at Andover RFC in Hampshire be ...

, rugby player * Jeremy Stuart-Smith, High Court judge * Sir Reginald Stubbs, colonial governor *Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, killed in action in Afghanistan on 1 July 2009 *

Nigel Twiston-Davies Nigel Twiston-Davies (born 16 May 1957, Crickhowell) is a British racehorse trainer specialising in National Hunt racing. He is based at stables at Naunton, Gloucestershire. He began training in 1981 and sent out his first winner, Last of the Fo ...

, Cheltenham Gold Cup winning horse trainer * Charlie Wallis, cricketer *

Mike Westmacott Michael Horatio Westmacott was born on 12 April 1925 at Coombe House, St George's Crescent, Babbacombe, Torquay, Devon. He died on 20 June 2012 in Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria. Westmacott was a prominent British mountaineer who was a member of the ...

, mountaineer, Member of the successful

1953 British Mount Everest Expedition The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Mount Everest, and the first confirmed to have succeeded when Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on 29 May 1953. ...

Peter Wildeblood Peter Wildeblood (19 May 1923 – 14 November 1999) was a British-Canadian journalist, novelist, playwright and gay rights campaigner. He was one of the first men in the UK to publicly declare his homosexuality. Early life Peter Wildeblood wa ...

, journalist and playwright and celebrated gay rights campaigner *

Richard Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton Richard Thomas James Wilson, Baron Wilson of Dinton, (born 11 October 1942) is a member of the British House of Lords and former Cabinet Secretary. Career Richard Wilson was born in Glamorgan. He was educated at Radley College (1956–60 and w ...

, former UK

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Simon Wolfson Simon Adam Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise (born 27 October 1967), is a British businessman and currently chief executive of the clothing retailer Next plc, as well as a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative life peer. He is the son of t ...

, Baron Wolfson of Aspley Guise, CEO of

Next plc Next plc, trading as Next (styled as NEXT) is a British Multinational corporation, multinational clothing, footwear and home products retailer, which has its headquarters in Enderby, Leicestershire, Enderby, England. It has around 700 stores, of ...

*Major General Sir Edward Woodgate, who died of wounds sustained during the

Battle of Spion Kop The Battle of Spion Kop (; ) was a military engagement between British forces and two Boer Republics, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, during the campaign by the British to relieve the besieged city Ladysmith during the ...

Charles Worsley Charles Worsley (24 June 1622 – 12 June 1656) was an English soldier and politician. He was an ardent supporter of Oliver Cromwell and was an officer in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth of England. ...

, cricketer

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