The last wicket pair of George Hirst and Rhodes were left with 15 runs to get, and duly got them.

Foster had bowled leg-theory on that tour with his fielders placed close in on the leg side, as had George Hirst in 1903 – 04.

Back row: Dick Barlow ( umpire ), Tom Hayward, George Hirst, William Gunn ( cricketer ) | Billy Gunn, J. T.

Grace and George Herbert Hirst have come comparably close to heading both batting and bowling averages in a season ).

Other featured artists were Sarah Lucas, Gary Hume, Damien Hirst, Mat Collishaw, Gilbert & George, Critical Décor and Steven Pippin.

Coached by George Hirst, he became in Wisden's phrase " a useful member of the Eton XI " that included Percy Lawrie and Gubby Allen.

* Wisden Cricketers of the Year – R. E. Foster, Schofield Haigh, George Herbert Hirst, Tom Taylor, John Tunnicliffe

* Most wickets – George Hirst 208 @ 16. 50 ( BB 7 – 18 )

The artist George Shaw, short listed for the 2012 Turner Prize lives in the town ; Damien Hirst, artist, has a couple of farms and several other properties in the town as well as an art " factory " on a local trading estate and is involved in several major local initiatives.

He had already met a number of great Yorkshire players including George Hirst and he was delighted by an end of season newspaper report in which Herbert Sutcliffe predicted that Trueman would play for Yorkshire before he was nineteen and for England before he was twenty-one.

In 459 first-class matches for the county, Trueman took 1, 745 wickets at 17. 12, a total bettered only by Wilfred Rhodes, George Hirst, Schofield Haigh and George Macaulay.

In the 1906 English cricket season, George Herbert Hirst achieved the unique feat of scoring over 2000 runs and taking over 200 wickets.

George Hirst, a former Yorkshire cricketer responsible for assessing and coaching young players, believed that Hutton's batting technique was essentially already complete.

Against Yorkshire, the strongest County bowling attack ( George Hirst, Wilfred Rhodes, Schofield Haigh, Stanley Jackson ), of Fry's time, he averaged a remarkable 63. 6 over the course of his career, including 234 in 1903, and back-to-back scores of 177, in 1904.

Back row: Dick Barlow ( umpire ), Tom Hayward, George Herbert Hirst | George Hirst, William Gunn ( cricketer ) | Billy Gunn, J. T. Hearne | J T Hearne ( 12th man ), Bill Storer ( wkt kpr ), Bill Brockwell, V A Titchmarsh ( umpire ).

Foster had bowled leg-theory on that tour with his fielders placed close in on the leg-side, as had George Hirst in 1903 – 04.

They were followed by John Tunnicliffe, David Denton, Ted Wainwright and George Hirst.

In 1906, George Hirst achieved a unique " double-double " by scoring 2, 385 runs and taking 208 wickets.

The following season, he was spotted by Yorkshire coach George Hirst and former England spinner Bobby Peel, who were talent scouting for Yorkshire, and given a trial in the cricket nets at Headingley cricket ground.

This came about because Lord Hawke refused to allow George Hirst and Wilfred Rhodes to travel but MacLaren had become, to quote White, " the first to see in Barnes a bowler of international calibre ".

In 1555, during the reign of Queen Mary I, a Protestant Yorkshire baker, George Tankerfield, was brought from London and burnt to death on Romeland because of his refusal to accept the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation.

Radcliffe was born the son of George Radcliffe, attorney, in Wakefield, Yorkshire, and was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School and Northallerton Grammar School.

Born Augustus Henry Lane-Fox at Bramham cum Oglethorpe, Wetherby, Yorkshire, he was the son of William Lane-Fox and Lady Caroline Douglas, a sister of George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton.

* In the Graphic Art Novel The Last Coiner, authored by Peter M. Kershaw in prelude to The Yorkshire Coiners film aka The Last Coiner, and the interactive game Coins and Nooses, were produced with their basis taken from the exploits of the prolific maestros of 18th Century milling, the Cragg Vale Coiners who smelted King George III's currency which ultimately lead to the Monarch ordering their execution by hanging at Tyburn.

George Vertue, whose family had property in Hawksmoor's part of Nottingham shire, wrote in 1731 that he was taken as a youth to act as clerk by ' Justice Mellust in Yorkshire, where Mr Gouge senior did some fretwork ceilings afterwards Mr. Haukesmore came to London, became clerk to Sr. Christopher Wren & thence became an Architect '.

The next year he was made Auditor of the Exchequer, and the year after created Baron Halifax, of Halifax in the County of Yorkshire, with remainder to his nephew George Montagu.

George Orwell set out to report on working class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of the West Midlands, Yorkshire and Lancashire.

* George Smith ( Yorkshire cricketer ) ( 1876 – 1929 ), first class cricketer for Yorkshire CCC

* 1922 — George Hughes ( ex-Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway )

), Reminiscences of a Yorkshire Naturalist, George Redway, ( London ), 1896.

Born George Jackson, probably in Yorkshire, the third but oldest surviving son of George Jackson ( 1687 / 8 – 1758 ) of Hill House, Richmond, Yorkshire, and Ellerton Abbey, Yorkshire, and Hannah, daughter of William Ward of Guisborough, Yorkshire.

His father, Henry Cayley, was a distant cousin of Sir George Cayley the aeronautics engineer innovator, and descended from an ancient Yorkshire family.

Osborne was introduced to public life and to court by his neighbour in Yorkshire, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.

Sheffield Manor, also known as the Manor Lodge or Manor Castle, is a lodge built about 1516 in what then was a large deer park east of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, to provide a country retreat and further accommodate George Talbot, the 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, and his large family.

Shane was born as George Frederick Speight in Thrybergh, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

He was convinced that George Orwell's 1984 was nearly all wrong as it applied to England, which was `` driving forward into uncharted waters '', with the danger of a new tyranny ahead.

Forty years ago an English writer, W. L. George, dealt with this subject in Eddies of the Day, and said, as an example, that ' Saint George for Merry England ' would not start a spirit half so quickly as ' Strike frog-eating Frenchmen dead ' ''!!

* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

Australia had scored a massive 586 ( Syd Gregory 201, George Giffen 161 ) and then dismissed England for 325.

* 1653 – Prince George of Denmark, prince consort of Anne of England ( d. 1708 )

On the 1930 tour a delegation led by the Irish lock George Beamish expressed their displeasure at the fact that whilst the blue of Scotland, white of England and red of Wales were represented in the strip there was no green for Ireland.

Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.

Charlton was related to several professional footballers on his mother's side of the family: his uncles were Jack Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ), George Milburn ( Leeds United and Chesterfield ), Jim Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ) and Stan Milburn ( Chesterfield, Leicester City and Rochdale ), and legendary Newcastle United and England footballer Jackie Milburn, was his mother's cousin.

The current Governor of the Bank of England is Sir Mervyn King, who took over on 30 June 2003 from Sir Edward George.

These notes featured an image of King George V ( Bank of England notes did not begin to display an image of the monarch until 1960 ).

" Clay Witt, a minister in the Metropolitan Community Church, explains how theologians and commentators like John Shelby Spong, George Edwards and Michael England interpret injunctions against certain sexual acts as being originally intended as a means of distinguishing religious worship between Abrahamic and the surrounding pagan faiths, within which homosexual acts featured as part of idolatrous religious practices: " England argues that these prohibitions should be seen as being directed against sexual practices of fertility cult worship.

* 1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.

Speakers of British English and American English sometimes have this problem, which was alluded to in George Bernard Shaw's statement " England and America are two countries separated by a common language ".

During this period, Banks was also involved in a notorious incident with Manchester United's George Best who, while playing against England for Northern Ireland, flicked the ball out of Banks ' hands and headed it into the net as the protesting goalkeeper chased him.

In England he was given a generous welcome, which included an introduction to King George IV and the receipt of £ 7000 after a residence of five months.

* George Everest 1830 – 1843 ( England & India )

* George Gabriel Stokes 1819 – 1903 ( England )

Memorial to Fox's birthplace, situated on George Fox Lane in Fenny Drayton, England

George Fox was born in the strongly puritan village of Drayton-in-the-Clay, Leicestershire, England ( now known as Fenny Drayton ), 15 miles ( 24 km ) west-south-west of Leicester.

Shortly after the marriage, Margaret was imprisoned at Lancaster ; George remained in the south-east of England, becoming so ill and depressed that for a time he lost his sight.

Following extensive travels around the various American colonies, George Fox returned to England in June 1673 confident that his movement was firmly established there.

Union flag, combining the St George's Cross | Cross of St George or England, with the Flag of Scotland | Cross of St. Andrew of Scotland.

On the morning of Sunday 17 December 1967, Holt, friends Christopher Anderson, Jan Lee and George Illson and his two bodyguards drove down from Melbourne to see the British lone yachtsman Alec Rose sail through Port Phillip Heads in his boat Lively Lady to complete a leg of his solo circumnavigation of the globe, which started and ended in England.