This was the beginning of one of the greatest periods in English cricket history with players such as captain Len Hutton, batsmen Denis Compton, Peter May, Tom Graveney, Colin Cowdrey, bowlers Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, Alec Bedser, Jim Laker, Tony Lock and wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

Trevor Huddleston, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, Doris Lessing, Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis Matthews, Sir Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, John Napper, Ben Nicholson, Sir Herbert Read, Flora Robson, Michael Tippett, the cartoonist ' Vicky ', Professor C. H. Waddington and Barbara Wootton.

He was to become one of the famous stars of the sport along with Stanley Matthews and others of the era, and was to be one of the first to appear in adverts ( for Brylcreem ), after Denis Compton.

* 1918 – Denis Compton, English cricketer ( d. 1997 )

Local resident and noted cricketer, Denis Compton, opened the new clubhouse in 1988.

He fell foul of off-field incidents too, including one in which he and Tony Lock were blamed for something done by Denis Compton who, as the " golden boy " of English cricket, was effectively beyond reproach.

Denis Charles Scott Compton CBE ( 23 May 1918 in Hendon, Middlesex – 23 April 1997 in Windsor, Berkshire ) was an English cricketer who played in 78 Test matches, and a footballer.

Denis Compton was the second son of Harry and Jessie Compton ; his older brother was Les Compton.

A picture of misery ; Denis Compton leaving the Melbourne Cricket Ground after having been told he was unfit to play in the Second Test due to his swollen knee.

After retiring from sport, Denis Compton became a journalist and later a commentator for BBC Television.

He was also honoured at the Shenley Cricket Centre, where the main pitch is named the Denis Compton Oval.

The following table summarises the Test centuries scored by Denis Compton.

Hutton scored 196 in the first Test, hitting his last 96 runs in 95 minutes ; he and Denis Compton scored 248 runs together in 133 minutes.

Hutton hit 344 runs in the Test series at an average of 44. 00 ; in all first-class matches, he scored eleven centuries and totalled 2, 585 runs at an average 64. 62, although his achievements that season were overshadowed by those of Denis Compton and Bill Edrich, who both broke the previous record for most runs scored in a season.

As a compromise aimed at critics who favoured the appointment of a professional captain, the professional Denis Compton was made vice-captain, but Brown came to rely more on Hutton than on Compton for advice.

Other players who were involved in disputes with Hammond included Denis Compton, whose cavalier approach Hammond disliked, and Learie Constantine, who believed Hammond insulted him in the West Indies in 1925, although the two later made peace.

The final show featured Lord's Cricket Ground and included an interview with his old friend Denis Compton.

* In 1946 – 47, Arthur Morris of Australia, and Denis Compton of England both made centuries in both innings of the Test.

* The English cricketer and footballer Denis Compton was stationed in Mhow during World War II and he had played cricket for the Holkar ( Indore ) team in the Ranji Trophy ( India's National Cricket Championship ).

The Club has produced several noted players, particularly the great batsmen Patsy Hendren, Bill Edrich and Denis Compton.

Denis Compton scored 278 against Pakistan in 1954, and Bernard Bosanquet ( the bowler who first developed the googly ) took 8 / 107 for England against Australia in 1905.

' Denis answered and said: ' Sir, he is not here ; but yield you to me and I shall bring you to him.

Denis Diderot said it looked like he copied it from some ancient bas-relief.

Denis Healey, a member of parliament from 1952 to 1992, later said this speech was " the greatest parliamentary speech I ever heard ... it had all the moral passion and rhetorical force of Demosthenes ".

" Coach Denis Pagan later said of Carey's finals performances.

In 2001, Denis Healey, a Bilderberg group founder and, for 30 years, a steering committee member, said: " To say we were striving for a one-world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair.

Denis MacShane, a former Foreign Office minister, said: “ Given the appalling suffering and repression of the Bahraini people, it would be a fitting gesture for the Countess of Wessex to auction these trinkets and distribute the proceeds to the victims of the regime .”

Jacques, the title character of Denis Diderot's " Jacques the Fatalist ", is said to have been severely wounded in the knee while serving in the French Army at the Battle of Fontenoy.

However, his landlord Patrick Denis said Ferguson once told him, " I'm such a great person.

Denis, his Flatbush landlord, said Ferguson appeared even more unstable upon his return, speaking in the third person about " some apocryphal-type doom scenario " that included black people rising up and striking down " their pompous rulers and oppressors ".

After his head was chopped off, Denis is said to have picked it up and walked ten kilometres ( six miles ), preaching a sermon the entire way, making him one of many cephalophores in hagiology.

After his head was chopped off, Denis is said to have picked it up and walked ten kilometres ( six miles ) from the summit of Mont Mars ( now Montmartre ), preaching a sermon the entire way, making him one of many cephalophores in hagiology.

Denis Naughten said frontbench members did not have Kenny's support and would like him to withdraw his motion of confidence and stand down in the interest of the party.

The two most famous were " silly Billy ", as spoken by his caricature of British Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, who actually did use the phrase to describe strikers and " I mean that most sincerely, folks ", which his caricature of Opportunity Knocks presenter Hughie Green used so often people believed that the real Hughie Green actually said it.

The former Europe Minister, Denis MacShane, said that this showed that Farage was " happy to line his pockets with gold ".

(" One of the cast had actually been in the Legion, so we took all their real exercises and did them together every day, to concentrate the actors as a group ," said Denis.

His student Denis Stairs, who would go on to lead the Montreal Engineering Company, said of Howe that by the time the camp ended, his students had great respect for him.

On his proudest achievement in government since 1997 Denis Murphy said: " I was proud of the major role I played to secure funding for the UK mining industry, safeguarding hundreds of jobs in my constituency and the future of the last deep mine in the Great Northern coalfield, Ellington colliery in Northumberland.

" Denis ," she said, " it's me, your mother.

Denis Dyack, designer of Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem and Too Human, said " absolutely yes " in July 2006 regarding the question of a possible sequel in his Too Human IGN blog.

Former Foreign Office minister Denis MacShane said: ' Every little rat who feasted during the Bush years is now leaving the ship '.

Information provided by the company for the International Universal Exhibition of 1900, at which it displayed a variety of cannons, said the St Denis factory employed around 400 staff and had 600 machine tools.

" The WPA General Secretary Denis Leigh said that the WPA was under no obligation to accept complaints from one member society directed against another member society, and he informed Snezhnevsky of the complaints and sent him the " Bukovsky Papers.

Denis Norden, asked for his favorite word in 2008, said:

It had been " touch and go ", said the judge, whether he would actually send Denis Lemon to jail.

The term " Scottish Renaissance " is most frequently said to have been coined by the French Languedoc poet and scholar Denis Saurat in his article " Le Groupe de la Renaissance Écossaise ", which was published in the Revue Anglo-Américaine in April 1924.