The world's top 10 association croquet players as of May 2012 are Reg Bamford ( South Africa ), Robert Fulford ( England ), Robert Fletcher ( Australia ), David Maugham ( England ), Toby Garrison ( New Zealand ), Aaron Westerby ( New Zealand ), Paddy Chapman ( New Zealand ), Jamie Burch ( England ), Greg Bryant ( New Zealand ) and Ben Rothman ( USA ).

Only a select few got chuckles from young Chapman including Frankie Howerd, the team of Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss, It's That Man Again, Educating Archie, Take It From Here and Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh.

* 1940 – Ben Chapman, English politician and civil servant

* 1605 – The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.

In the winter, the Red Sox traded right fielder Ben Chapman to the Cleveland Indians to make room for Williams on the roster, with Williams inheriting Chapman's number 9 on his uniform opposed to Williams ' number 5 in the previous spring training, even though Chapman had hit. 340 in the previous season, which led Boston Globe sports journalist Gerry Moore to quip, " Not since Joe DiMaggio broke in with the Yankees by " five for five " in St. Petersberg in 1936 has any baseball rookie received the nationwide publicity that has been accorded this spring to Theodore Francis Williams ".

In 2011, BBC Two broadcast, DOUBLE AGENT: The Eddie Chapman Story, a documentary presented by Ben Macintyre based on his book.

Rollo is the subject of the 17th century play Rollo Duke of Normandy written by John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Ben Jonson, and George Chapman.

His friendship with Thomas Dekker brought him into conflict with Ben Jonson and George Chapman in the War of the Theatres.

The eponymous creature was played by Ben Chapman on land and Ricou Browning in underwater scenes.

* Ben Chapman as Gill-man ( land )

Ben Chapman portrayed the Gill-man for the majority of the film shot at Universal City, California.

* The Reel Gill-man – Official site of Ben Chapman, who played the Gill-man

He moved into movies in 1954, playing the underwater role of the Gill-man in Creature from the Black Lagoon ( while Ben Chapman played the monster on land ), a feat he repeated in two sequels.

With John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, and George Chapman (?

)-John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, George Chapman ( The drinking song )

* George Chapman, Ben Jonson & John Marston – Eastward Hoe ( performed & published )

* 1 May 1998 to 21 November 2003, updated, drum and bass version of Led Zeppelin's " Whole Lotta Love " by Ben Chapman.

They enroll their child, Ben, in Chapman Academy, a very academic pre-school headed by Miss Harridan.

Kenelm was sufficiently in favour with James I to be proposed as a member of Edmund Bolton's projected Royal Academy ( with George Chapman, Michael Drayton, Ben Jonson, John Selden, and Sir Henry Wotton ).

He variously commissioned, bought and produced plays by, or made loans to Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton, Robert Greene, Henry Chettle, George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, Anthony Munday, Henry Porter, John Day, John Marston and Michael Drayton.

Further, following extreme, race-based jeering at Robinson by the Philadelphia Phillies and their manager, Ben Chapman, Chandler threatened both the team and Chapman personally with disciplinary action for any future incidents of race-based taunting.

: Ben Chapman, 3 ( 1931 – 1933 )

Actor Ben Carruthers introduced her to Bob Dylan in Paris that summer.

Ben believes that one of the new gangs introduced in the game, the Hound Dogs, are behind this but soon discovers a more sinister and murderous plot.

Instead, the series introduced two new characters in the ninth season, Ben Browder as Cameron Mitchell, the new SG-1 team leader, and Beau Bridges as Hank Landry, the new leader of Stargate Command.

It also features a bad guy named " Ben Buzzard " who bears a strong resemblance to Buzz Buzzard, a Lantz character introduced in the 1948 short Wet Blanket Policy who would eventually succeed Wally Walrus as Woody's primary antagonist.

He also edited and introduced Hobohemia: Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman & other agitators & outsiders in 1920s / 30s Chicago, by Frank O. Beck.

* In Star Wars, Ben Kenobi was first introduced to the audience as an old hermit, often seen by most of the in-universe characters at their surroundings as a very dangerous, crazy wizard.

The Australian National University was established by an act of the Parliament of Australia, introduced by the then Prime Minister Ben Chifley and the Minister for Post-war Reconstruction J. J. Dedman with support of the Opposition Leader Robert Menzies.

In 1938 John Lomax visited noted writer Ben Robertson in Pickens County, South Carolina and Ben introduced him to the all-day singing festivals of the area which enabled Lomax to preserve the lyrics of many local folksongs.

The term was introduced by Ben Shneiderman in 1983 within the context of office applications and the desktop metaphor.

Those shows featured the top performers of the era and introduced new acts, such as Dionne Warwick, The Shirelles, Chuck Jackson, The Zombies, Little Anthony & The Imperials, the Ronettes, the Shangri-Las, Gene Pitney, Ben E. King, the Tymes, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Bobby Vinton ( who was the leader of the house band when he asked for a chance to perform as a singer ), The Lovin ' Spoonful, Cream, and The Who, among many others.

Translations and presentations by Quintin Hoare, Ben Brewster, and others introduced these important thinkers to the English language public.

This later caused controversy ; on 9 August Ben Summerskill, the chief executive of Stonewall, criticised Helmer, saying " If Mr Helmer thinks that homophobia doesn't exist in modern Britain, then perhaps he should be introduced to the families of Michael Causer and Jody Dobrowski.

The bill to create the proposal was introduced and championed by Rep. Elton Gallegly and Sen. Ben " Night Horse " Campbell.

The PBS was introduced by Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley as part of wider plans to create a British-style National Health Service, but the High Court of Australia soon ruled most of Chifley's health care plans as unconstitutional.

Dalton is soon introduced to local business magnate ( and next door neighbor ) Brad Wesley ( Ben Gazzara ).

There were no roses for Aristides ; roses weren't introduced until Hall of Famer Ben Brush won in 1896.

The following year, along with Democratic Maryland Senator Ben Cardin, he introduced a bill to " get rid of the most venerable big ethanol subsidy: the blenders tax credit.

Says New York Times critic Ben Brantley, “ I found myself holding on to what these actors had to say as if I were a 5-year-old at bedtime being introduced to ‘ The Arabian Nights .’”

Avie introduced Ben Waldman, the General Manager of the Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft.

At a party she was introduced to Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot of Curiosity Killed the Cat by her friends who took her to the Metamorphisis recording studios on All Saints Road, London and started doing backing vocals.

At the end of the 1994 season after playing in just 13 games for the Panthers, Alexander, seeking a change and to just get away from Sydney following the death of his brother Ben in 1992, joined the Auckland Warriors, one of four new teams introduced for the 1995 season.

He later introduced influences from Simon & Garfunkel, Ben Folds, and The Beach Boys, who he has named as his favorite band.

They differ in many places from the Talmudic ordinances, and are introduced in the name of Joshua ben Nun, or, according to another version, of Othniel Ben Kenaz.