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Grace and captained
Gentlemen, captained by W. G. Grace, versus Players, Lords 1899
* England, captained by WG Grace, win The Ashes 2 – 0.
The team, captained by W G Grace, is organised by Lord Sheffield who later subscribes his Sheffield Shield to Australian domestic first-class cricket.
In 1891 – 92, Lord Sheffield's team ( captained by W. G. Grace ) toured Australia, the first English side to do so in four years.
Gentlemen, captained by WG Grace, vs Players, Lords 1899
The English cricket team, captained by WG Grace, won the Ashes series 2 – 0 with a third Test match abandoned.

Grace and England
In 1896 England under the captaincy of W G Grace won the series 2 – 1, and this marked the end of England's longest period of Ashes dominance.
When Mary ascended the throne, she was proclaimed under the same official style as Henry VIII and Edward VI: " Mary, by the Grace of God, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England and of Ireland on Earth Supreme Head ".
This style, which had been in use since 1554, was replaced when Philip inherited the Spanish Crown in 1556 with " Philip and Mary, by the Grace of God King and Queen of England, Spain, France, both the Sicilies, Jerusalem and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Burgundy, Milan and Brabant, Counts of Habsburg, Flanders and Tyrol ".
Pole reported that the Prince was spoken of highly by Thomas Cromwell in England and had influenced Henry VIII in his turn towards Protestantism, and in his tactics, for example during the Pilgrimage of Grace.
As King of England, Richard was styled Dei Gratia Rex Angliae et Franciae et Dominus Hiberniae ( by the Grace of God, King of England and France and Lord of Ireland ).
An easy England victory disappeared in the closing stages thanks to some incredible bowling from Australia's Fred Spofforth, seemingly in response to unsportsmanlike behaviour earlier in the game from WG Grace.
I am writing to ask you to consider the inclusion of my son, E. M. Grace – a splendid hitter and most excellent catch – in your England XI.
It was in August 1866 that Grace made his debut for the United South of England Eleven ( USEE ), with whom he was to have a long and lucrative association.
With Grace and his brothers E. M. and Fred playing, Gloucestershire won that game by 51 runs and quickly became one of the best teams in England.
There was speculation that Grace intended to retire before the 1878 season to concentrate on his medical career, but he decided to continue playing cricket and may have been influenced by the arrival of the first Australian team to tour England in May.
Despite his injury problems in 1891, few doubted that Grace should captain England in Australia the following winter when he led Lord Sheffield's team to Australia in 1891 – 92.
It is evident that Grace " plotted " his own omission from the England team by asking C. B.
Grace made his final first-class appearance on 20 – 22 April 1908 for the Gentlemen of England v Surrey at The Oval, where, opening the innings, he scored 15 and 25.
" For decades ", wrote Frith, " Grace had been arguably the most famous man in England ", easily recognisable because of " his beard and his bulk ", and revered because of " his batsmanship ".
A very prescient comment was made by the laconic Yorkshire and England fast bowler Tom Emmett who, after playing against Grace for the first time in 1869, called him a " nonsuch " ( i. e., a nonpareil ) who " ought to be made to play with a littler bat ".
* May 20 – England passes the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of the deposed James II.
* Mount Grace Priory is established in Yorkshire, England.
* Dukes and duchesses in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom as well as nobility bearing the title of " Prince " ( who are not royalty of highness ) bear the style of Grace, e. g. " His Grace ", " Your Grace ".
* Henry V of England commences construction of Grace Dieu ( ship ).
Grace O ' Malley was born in Ireland around 1530, when Henry VIII was King of England and ( at least in name ) Lord of Ireland.

Grace and First
* First ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, 1971
In August 1914, soon after the First World War began, Grace wrote a letter to The Sportsman in which he called for the immediate closure of the county cricket season and for all first-class cricketers to set an example and serve their country.
Grace was distressed by the First World War and was known to shake his fist and shout at the German Zeppelins floating over his home in South London.
* January 3 – Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States ( d. 1957 )
Local artist Julie Richards created special plates, mugs and coasters, Kate Murray created the much sought after limited edition Twm Toy and Rhiannon created special gold and silver pin badges. Today a wood-carving of Twm stands on Tregaron Square created by Grace Young Monaghan and supported by Communities First in Tregaron.
President of the United States Calvin Coolidge, First Lady of the United States Grace Goodhue Coolidge, and Senator Curtis on their way to the United States Capitol | Capitol building on Inauguration Day, March 4, 1925.
Some of them are Yahweh's Restoration Ministry, Union Hill Baptist Church, St. Andrews Catholic Church, General Baptist Church, Summit First Assembly of God, Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church, Shiloh United Methodist Church, Cedar Grove Baptist Church, Grace Lutheran Church, and the Community Presbyterian Church.
The College Grace is said by a Scholar ( a student who achieved a First Class mark overall in the previous year ) at the beginning of Formal Hall, and is as follows:
* 6 February 1833 – 23 October 1862: His Majesty Othon the First, by the Grace of God, King of Greece, Prince of Bavaria
* W G Grace makes his final appearance for England in Test cricket in the First Test at Trent Bridge.
Kennedy Center honorees 2009 Mel Brooks, Dave Brubeck, Grace Bumbry, Robert De Niro, and Bruce Springsteen, with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in the Blue Room, White House, Dec. 6, 2009.
Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge ( January 3, 1879 – July 8, 1957 ) was the wife of Calvin Coolidge and First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929.
The official White House portrait of First Lady Grace Coolidge with her dog Rob Roy
* Grace Coolidge: First Lady of Baseball
In 1991, Crewson appeared in her first breakthrough role in the feature film and in later years appeared in films, such as The Good Son ( 1993 ) as Macaulay Culkin's mother, The Santa Clause ( 1994 ) and its two sequels The Santa Clause 2 ( 2002 ) and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause ( 2006 ) as Tim Allen's ex-wife, To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday ( 1996 ) as Peter Gallagher's unfortunate blind date, and Air Force One ( 1997 ) as Harrison Ford's First Lady Grace Marshall.
* A Treatise Tending Vnto a Declaration Whether a Man be in the Estate of Damnation or in the Estate of Grace: And If he be in the First, How he may in Time Come out of it: if in the second, how he maie discerne it, and perseuere in the same to the end.
Grace Choi is a tall Asian-American woman with metahuman strength who sports tattoos styled along Pacific First Nations lines on both of her arms and a circular sun design around her navel.
* Grace Coolidge ( 1879 – 1957 ), wife of Calvin Coolidge and First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929
First, when Grace found Karen in a dominatrix film and was horribly embarrassed, and second, when Karen does a design job all on her own and Grace takes credit for it.
First introduced as a new bandmember of Big Brother, she brought what the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver, and Big Brother did not seem at that point to have-a lead singer to match Jefferson Airplane's Marty Balin and Grace Slick.
Dior haute-couture graces the bodies of Princess Grace of Monaco, Nicaraguan First Lady Hope Portocarrero, Princess Alexandria of Yugoslavia, and Lady Pamela Hicks ( Lord Mountbatten of Burma's younger daughter ) for the wedding of HRH The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer.
In his first season at Grace Road, Hoggard took an impressive 50 First Class wickets.
** First Prize Winners ( 6 ): Mogens Markussen ( DK ), Stephan Schlitter ( DE ), Grace O ' Connor / Sinead Finn ( IE ), Lina Tomasella ( IT ), Nicola Kirk ( UK ) and Jean-Pierre Wyss / Matthias Zimmermann / Elmar Artho ( CH )

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