Grant's son, Thomas, was a prominent businessman in Trinidad and Tobago and founded T. Geddes Grant Ltd. His grandsons Fred, and Sir Lindsay ran the company, and Jackie and Rolph captained the West Indies cricket team.

The Club has produced two Welsh international bowlers ; Mr. C Standfast in 1937 and Mr. B Hawkins who represented Wales in the 1982 World Pairs and captained Wales in 1982 and 1984.

Midway through the season, he played in Morris's XI in a testimonial match for Hassett, who captained the other team.

Heading into the 1997 – 98 season, Linden resigned his captaincy for Messier, who had developed a strong reputation as a leader, having captained the Rangers over the Canucks in 1994 ( he also captained the Oilers to a Stanley Cup in 1990 ).

Seven hundred Rhode Islanders owned or captained slave ships, including most substantial merchants, and many ordinary shopkeepers and tradesmen, who purchased shares in slaving voyages,

Of the legendary players from the Barassi era, none was more important than John Nicholls, who captained all three premierships and took over as captain-coach upon Barassi's departure.

A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor ( Private Fraser in Dad's Army ), artist Robin Philipson, singer John Hanson, Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series and Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel.

The St Ives Rowing Club was once captained by John Goldie and has had a number of members who have competed at Olympic and Commonwealth championships.

Mark Taylor, who captained the team after Border, moved to dilute Simpson's authority.

Daimon Bok, the father of the Ferengi who captained that vessel, sought revenge on Picard, first in Next Generations first-season episode " The Battle ", and later in its seventh season, in the episode " Bloodlines ".

It was runner up in 1948 scoring 50 wins, its leading players being the right-winger Christopher Claudio Pinho, who captained the Brazilian team in the Copa América in Montevideo, and midfielder Antonio Fernandes, Antoninho, one of the biggest idols in club history.

The team, captained by W G Grace, is organised by Lord Sheffield who later subscribes his Sheffield Shield to Australian domestic first-class cricket.

Gould's brother Bob was a forward who captained Newport during the 1886 – 87 season and played 11 times for Wales, once as captain versus Scotland in 1887.

* Christopher Columbus, navigator, explorer, and colonizer who captained the first European ship to reach the Americas

Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers AO, OCC ( born 28 July 1936 ) is a former cricketer who captained West Indies.

Martin Osborne Johnson CBE ( born 9 March 1970 ) is an English former rugby union player who represented and captained England and Leicester.

The river itself was named after the American ship Columbia Rediviva captained by Robert Gray, who first ventured over a dangerous sandbar and explored the lower reaches of the river in 1792.

The years immediately after formation and up to the First World War were the most successful in the club's history, when they were one of the strongest sides in England, beating the world famous Barbarians in 1892, and producing a number of international players including E. W " Little Billy " Taylor, who captained England in the 1890s.

Gregory Stephen Chappell MBE ( born 7 August 1948 in Unley, South Australia ) is a former cricketer who captained Australia between 1975 and 1977 and then joined the breakaway World Series Cricket ( WSC ) organisation, before returning to the Australian captaincy in 1979, a position he held until his retirement 1984.

He was steeped in the game from a very early age: his father Martin was a noted grade cricketer in Adelaide who put a bat in his hands as soon as he could walk, while his maternal grandfather was the famous all-round sportsman Victor Richardson, who captained Australia at the end of a nineteen-Test career.

Graham Alan Gooch OBE DL ( born 23 July 1953 ) is a former cricketer who captained Essex and England.

* Charles Campbell, former midfielder who won 8 Scottish Cup medals and captained the club in the 1884 and 1885 FA Cup finals.

Lara captained the West Indies from 1998 to 1999, when West Indies suffered their first whitewash at the hands of South Africa.

The captains acknowledged that a third Dutch ship, the Cleyn Swaentgen ( Little Swan ) captained by Jan Jansz Kerckhoff and financed by Noordsche Compagnie shareholders from Delft, had already been at the island when they arrived.

* On 27 December 1831, set off from anchorage in the Barn Pool, under Mount Edgecumbe on the west side of Plymouth Sound, on her second survey voyage, captained by Robert FitzRoy with Charles Darwin on board.

", he played first-class cricket for a record-equalling 44 seasons, from 1865 to 1908, during which he captained England, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, the Gentlemen, MCC, the United South of England Eleven and several other teams.

After these disillusions, he briefly retired from international football but returned to the national team in 2005 and captained France to the 2006 World Cup Final where he won the Golden Ball as the tournament's most outstanding player.

During his patrols of the lake Arnold had commanded the fleet from the schooner Royal Savage, carrying 12 guns and captained by David Hawley.

The boys ' basketball team, captained by Damon Bailey, won a state title in 1990, Also Indiana All Star Cole Sinclair 2001, is the only other Indiana All Star from Bedford.

Born in New South Wales, with whom he began his first class cricket career in 1984, he captained the Australian Test cricket team from 1999 to 2004, and was the most capped Test cricket player in history, with 168 appearances, until Sachin Tendulkar of India broke this record in 2010.

Flight AC7067 was captained by Jean-Marc Bélanger, a former head of the Air Canada Pilots Association, while Captain Robert Pearson and Maurice Quintal were on board to oversee the flight from Montreal to California's Mojave Airport, its final resting place.

He graduated from the University of Illinois, where he captained the basketball team and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity.

He captained the All Blacks a number of times-though never a regular captain, he holds the record of longest period of captaincy ( not consecutive games ), from the first date ( 1960 ) he was appointed captain to the last match he captained ( 1971 ).

Also in 1919, the British were the first to cross the Atlantic in an airship when the R34 captained by Major George Herbert Scott of the Royal Air Force with his crew and passengers flew from East Fortune, Scotland to Mineola, Long Island, covering a distance of about in about four and a half days ; he then made a return trip to England, thus also completing the first double crossing of the Atlantic ( east – west – east ).

In 1801, the French ships Geographe captained by Nicolas Baudin and Naturaliste captained by Emmanuel Hamelin visited the area from the south.

Robert Sandeman sailed into Boston from Glasgow aboard the George and James, captained by Montgomery, on 18 October 1764.

He attended the Buckley School in Manhattan and St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, before graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, where he captained the crew that rowed in the Henley Royal Regatta in 1962 and was a member of St. Anthony Hall.

In 1952 he graduated from San Bernardino High School in San Bernardino, California, where he captained the swim team and was a basketball star ; his basketball jersey was later retired.

Boycott captained Yorkshire for eight seasons from 1971 to 1978, having been appointed following the sacking of Brian Close in 1970.

Mara also played 8 non first-class matches for Fiji from 1954 to 1956, with his final match for Fiji coming against the West Indies in Fiji's famous 28 run win over them, a match in which he captained Fiji to victory.

A fugitive from the kif, Tully seeks refuge on a hani ship, The Pride of Chanur, captained by Pyanfar Chanur.