They achieved this through their involvement as match organisers of the United South of England Eleven which played six matches in the 1872 season including games in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Grace's first visit to Scotland.

There was bad feeling between Grace and some of the 1878 Australians, especially their manager John Conway ; this came to a head on 20 June in a row over the services of Grace's friend Billy Midwinter, an Australian who had played for Gloucestershire in 1877.

In a match against Surrey at Clifton, the ball lodged in Grace's shirt after he had played it and he seized the opportunity to complete several runs before the fielders forced him to stop.

According to the statistical record used by CricketArchive, Grace's final first-class appearance in 1908 was his 870th and concluded a first-class career that had lasted 44 seasons from 1865 to 1908, equalling the record for the longest career span held by John Sherman, who played from 1809 to 1852.

But according to an older version of Grace's career record, published by Wisden in 1916, Grace played in 878 first-class matches over the same span.

For example, Rae points out that the statisticians are right to criticise Victorian compilers for " including minor matches to enable Grace to reach certain milestones "; but he also respects the view of Grace's contemporaries that " any match in which he played was elevated in status by his very presence ".

Altham pointed out that for most of Grace's career, he played on pitches that " the modern schoolboy would consider unfit for a house match " and on grounds without boundaries where every hit including those " into the country " had to be run in full.

• a ) As described in Grace's first-class career statistics, there are different versions of Grace's first-class career totals as a result of disagreement among cricket statisticians re the status of some matches he played in.

The college ground, known as the Close, played an important role in the history of cricket and witnessed 13 of W G Grace's first-class hundreds for Gloucestershire in the County Championship.

* 6th: That ' tis lawfull ( sic ) for the Duke of Richmond to choose any Gamesters, who have played in either of His Grace's two last Matches with Sir William Gage ; and that ' tis lawfull ( sic ) for Mr. Brodrick to choose any Gamesters within three Miles of Pepperhara, provided they actually lived there last Lady Day.

Dr Grace's club played Gloucestershire's initial first-class match versus Surrey at Durdham Down near Bristol on 2, 3 & 4 June 1870.

* Bobbi Adler, Grace's mother, is played by Debbie Reynolds.

* Martin Adler, Grace's father, is played by Alan Arkin.

* Janet Adler, Grace's older sister, is played by Geena Davis.

* Joyce Adler, Grace's younger sister, is played by Sara Rue.

* Danny, played by Tom Verica, Grace's long-term boyfriend from roughly 1995 – 1998, whom she nearly marries in the pilot episode.

* Mark, played by Ken Marino, is another of Grace's partners in Season 3, Three's a Crowd, Six is a Freakshow.

* Nathan, played by Woody Harrelson, is Grace's boyfriend during the 2001 season.

* Dr. Jay Markus, played by Tom Skerritt, is Leo's father and Grace's eventual father-in-law.

* Mr. Zamir, played by Marshall Manesh, is an obnoxious tenant in Will and Grace's building, with a tendency to take off his shirt and to steal Will and Grace's newspapers.

Michael Bilton, as Mr Grace's solicitor, Mr Thorpe, and his assistant, Miss Prescott, played by Shirley Cheriton, also held key roles over both series.

Bonnor also reached 160 yards in actual play when, at Longsight in 1880, the Australians played the local XVIII and he sent Grace's cousin, W. R. Gilbert, a long way.

Although they were childless, Potter played an important role in William ’ s large family, particularly enjoying her relationship with several nieces whom she helped educate and giving comfort and aid to her husband ’ s brothers and sisters.

He next played the psychotic wife-beating husband of Twiggy in her American film debut, W. Benedict starred in the television series Chopper One which aired for one season in 1974.

Paul Hartman played her husband, Albie Morrison.

During Polk's political career, Sarah assisted her husband with his speeches, gave him advice on policy matters and played an active role in his campaigns.

Eleanor spent the next few years conspiring against her husband Henry and neither parent played a part in John's very early life.

She had a strong influence on her husband and played a role in a few of his personnel and diplomatic decisions.

In her next-to-last movie, Hellcats of the Navy ( 1957 ), she played nurse Lieutenant Helen Blair and shared the screen for the only time with her husband, playing what one critic called " a housewife who came along for the ride ".

She declined in order to care for her husband, and Debbie Reynolds played the part.

The youngest and the last surviving of the three Soong sisters, she played a prominent role in the politics of the Republic of China and was the sister-in-law of Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the Republic of China preceding her husband.

Joan Greenwood played Olga and later recalled that her late husband Andre Morell thought the show was so appalling, they should get her out of the play.

* In the 1956 film Around the World in Eighty Days, starring David Niven, Passepartout ( played by Cantinflas ) rescues a princess captured by the Thuggee and sentenced to burn to death in the funeral pyre with her deceased husband.

Patricia Hayes, who had been seen from time to time previously as next door neighbour Mrs. Reed, was given a first name Min and became a starring character along with her husband Bert, previously played by Bill Maynard and now by Alfie Bass.

* Steve Rossmore ( played by Sam Robards ) — Darian's husband

In The River's Edge ( 1957 ), he played the husband of the former girlfriend ( played by Debra Paget ) of a killer ( Ray Milland ), who turns up with a stolen fortune and forces Quinn and Paget at gunpoint to guide him safely to Mexico.

Ford also played straight dramatic roles, including an adulterous husband in both Presumed Innocent ( 1990 ) and What Lies Beneath ( 2000 ), and a recovering amnesiac in Mike Nichols ' Regarding Henry ( 1991 ).

Burton played Taylor's tycoon husband in The V. I. P. s, an all-star film set in the VIP lounge of London Airport which proved to be a box-office hit.

Crawford coveted the roles that Shearer played but knew that Shearer's husband, producer Irving Thalberg, guaranteed Shearer first choice of roles in any MGM property.

The Brauweiler Chronicle indicated that soon after the escape of her husband, Richeza and her children fled to Germany with the Polish royal crown and regalia, which were given to Emperor Conrad II and she subsequently played an important role in mediating a peace settlement between Poland and the Holy Roman Empire.

Lanchester's husband Charles Laughton played Henry VIII and won an Academy Award for his portrayal.

He played Tim Brooke-Taylor ’ s gay husband in Sharon Tate ’ s last film before her murder, 12 to 1.

Laughton played a henpecked husband who eventually murders his wife in The Suspect ( 1944 ), directed by Robert Siodmak, who would become a good friend.

In 2005, BBC One broadcast an adaptation for the ShakespeaRe-Told series, written by Sally Wainwright and directed by Dave Richards, which set the story in modern-day Britain, with Katherine ( played by Shirley Henderson ) as an abrasive career politician who is told she must find a husband if she wants to become the party leader.

In 1968, she played the title role in the science fiction spoof Barbarella, directed by her French film director husband Roger Vadim, which established her status as a sex symbol.