In 1930, England captain Douglas Jardine, together with Nottinghamshire's captain Arthur Carr and his bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce, developed a variant of leg theory in which the bowlers bowled fast, short-pitched balls that would rise into the batsman's body, together with a heavily stacked ring of close fielders on the leg side.

In May 1902 he was passed fit for sea duty and was appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno in June, spending two months in exercises with the Channel Fleet under Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson before joining the Mediterranean fleet.

Helen's father, Arthur H. Keller, spent many years as an editor for the Tuscumbia North Alabamian and had served as a captain for the Confederate Army.

When Jardine was appointed England's captain for the 1932 – 33 English tour of Australia, a meeting was arranged with Nottinghamshire captain Arthur Carr and his two fast bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce at London's Piccadilly Hotel to discuss a plan to combat Bradman's extraordinary skills.

Even so he was promoted to vice-captain above several senior players when Ian Johnson and Keith Miller missed the 2nd Test at Sydney through injury and Arthur Morris was made temporary captain.

Douglas MacArthur was born 26 January 1880, at the Arsenal Barracks in Little Rock, Arkansas, to Arthur MacArthur, Jr., a U. S. Army captain, and his wife Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur ( nicknamed " Pinky ").

* Arthur Beetson, Australian rugby league captain

In 1790, Clark was commissioned by General Arthur St. Clair, governor of the Northwest Territory, as a captain in the Clarksville, Indiana militia.

* Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake received his first VC in 1902 during the Boer War while serving as a surgeon captain in the South African Constabulary attached to the 5th Field Ambulance, and the Bar whilst serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps near Zonnebeke, Belgium in 1914.

The captain of that ship, Arthur Phillip, was in command of the new colony of New South Wales.

To allow him to recover from his illness upon arrival in Australia, Hobbs missed the first two games of the tour, but once recovered, he played in only two of the remaining four fixtures before the Test series began, possibly because the MCC captain, Arthur Jones did not rate Hobbs a good player.

He was advised by the captain of Glorious, Arthur L. St. G.

James " Jim " Arthur Lovell, Jr., ( born March 25, 1928 ) is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew and mission control.

Bellamy, now a captain in the Celtic Otherword Navy, commands a mission returning King Arthur to the modern age.

With lineups including Mark Harris, Elwyn Walters, John Brass, Bill Mullins, Russell Fairfax, Johnny Mayes, John Peard, Ron Coote, Ian Schubert and captain Arthur Beetson, the Centenary of Rugby League panel considered the Roosters of 1974 and 1975 to be among the greatest club teams of all time.

On 14 March 1886, he was commissioned as a captain in the Upper Clarence Light Horse, with his sons Arthur and Harry becoming second lieutenants, while his two younger sons became troopers.

The position of gully was invented in the 1880s by Arthur Jones, who later became England captain, at Bedford Modern School in Bedford.

He became the first professional to captain the MCC for an entire game, Jack Hobbs having taken over from the injured Arthur Carr in 1924-25.

Being coached by Arthur Forman, Fry was made captain of the cricket and football XIs, and also won trophies for athletics.

Born in Chicopee Falls, then part of Springfield, Massachusetts, MacArthur was the father of General Douglas MacArthur, as well as Arthur MacArthur III, a captain in the Navy who was awarded the Navy Cross in World War I.

Following Jardine's appointment, a meeting was arranged with Nottinghamshire captain Arthur Carr and his two fast bowlers Larwood and Voce at London's Piccadilly Hotel.

* Arthur MacArthur III ( 1876 – 1923 ), his son, captain in the United States Navy

On the eve of the Battle of Guilford Court House, in February 1781, General Nathaniel Greene wrote Martin and seven other officers – including John Sevier, Arthur Campbell, and William Christian – appointing them agents to treat with the Cherokees and Chicasaws " to afford the Said Tribes of Indians every mark of our good disposition towards them.

“ Paddy Chayefsky ’ s ‘ Marty ’ and Its Significance to the Social History of Arthur Avenue, The Bronx, in the 1950s .” The Bronx County Historical Society Journal XLIV ( Spring / Fall 2007 ): 50-59.

* 1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.

A farmer and his two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma | Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936, Photo: Arthur Rothstein

* Arthur Hunter Palmer ( 1819 – 1898 ), born in County Armagh, 5th Premier of Queensland

In the late 1930s and 40s, British County Court judge Arthur Alexander Gordon Clark ( 1900 – 1958 ) published a number of detective novels under the alias Cyril Hare in which he made use of his profoundly extensive knowledge of the English legal system.

* Arthur P. Bagby, ( 1794 – 1858 ), born in Louisa County, was the tenth Governor of Alabama from 1837 to 1841.

Port Arthur is the second largest city in Jefferson County with a population of 57, 755.

* John Preston Arthur, A History of Watauga County, North Carolina: With Sketches of Prominent Families.

In 1773, a North Carolina Governor Arthur Dobbs proclamation related to a report from his agent, Col. Rutherford, head of a Bladen County militia, that a " mixed crew " of 50 families were living along Drowning Creek.

Onslow County was formed in 1734 and was named for the Honorable Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the British House of Commons.

Whereas Dobbs County and Tryon County, named for Martin's predecessors Arthur Dobbs and William Tryon, were abolished after American independence, Martin County was neither abolished nor renamed, a fact which has been attributed to the popularity of Alexander Martin, twice governor of the state ( 1782-1784, 1789-1792 ).

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Arthur County is a county located in the U. S. state of Nebraska.

The population was 460 at the 2010 census, making Arthur County the least populated county in Nebraska.

In the Nebraska license plate system, Arthur County is represented by the prefix 91 ( it had the ninety-first-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922 ).

Arthur County is home to the Baled Hay Church, and to the smallest court house in the United States, which serves as a museum.

Arthur County was formed in 1913.