Jardine insisted that the tactic was legitimate and called it " leg theory " but it was widely disparaged by its opponents, who dubbed it " Bodyline " ( from " on the line of the body ").

The firm of Jardine, Matheson and Co. began in Canton, China on 1 July 1832 by Scottish doctor William Jardine and Edinburgh University graduate James Matheson.

From 1970 until 1998, Jardine Matheson operated a pan-Asian investment banking joint venture, Jardine Fleming, with Robert Fleming & Co., a London merchant bank controlled by the Fleming family.

* Alain Le Pichon, China Trade and Empire: Jardine, Matheson & Co. And the Origins of British Rule in Hong Kong, 1827-1843 ( Oxford ; New York: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2006 ).

He was representing England in a side captained by Jardine.

Nevertheless, Jack Fingleton later claimed that Jardine could have won over the crowd by exchanging jokes or pleasantries with them.

It is certain that Jardine by this stage had developed an intense dislike for Australian crowds.

Once the team arrived in Australia, Jardine quickly alienated the press by refusing to give team details before a match and being uncooperative during interviews.

Jardine, who was known for being extremely dour even by the standards of the day, openly exulted and danced wildly upon Bradman's demise.

Jardine reacted by saying " Well bowled, Harold.

In later years, Jardine had helped Daniel by sending his young son Daniel Francis, his child by his Chinese wife, to Scotland for school.

Jardine, Matheson and Company took this opportunity to fill the vacuum left by the East India Company.

William Jardine was now being referred to by the other traders as " Tai-pan " ( 大班 ), a Chinese colloquial title meaning ' Great Manager '.

Though in some ways unsuccessful in his forays in England, he was brushed aside by the " Iron Duke " ( Duke of Wellington ), the then British Foreign Secretary, and reported bitterly to Jardine of being insulted by an arrogant and stupid man.

The respect shown by other foreign opium traders to Jardine before his departure can be best illustrated in the following passage from a book by William C. Hunter.

Aided by Matheson's nephew, Alexander Matheson ( 1805 – 1881 ) and MP John Abel Smith, Jardine met several times with Palmerston to argue the necessity for a war plan.

It was also suggested by Jardine that should the need arise to occupy an island or harbor in the vicinity of Guangzhou.

As early as the mid-1830s, the island of Hong Kong had already been used for transhipment points by Jardine Matheson and other firms ' ships.

" It is interesting to note that Jardine had helped James Stewart's son William by giving him a place in the firm in Canton as a clerk in the 1830s and eventually became a partner in 1842.

:“ A few days before Mr. Jardine ’ s departure from Canton, the entire foreign community entertained him at a dinner in the dining room of the East India Company ’ s Factory.

In 1988, instigated by Brian Powers, the first American taipan of Jardines, the entire corporate structure of Jardine, Matheson & Co., including all its allied companies, were restructured so that a holding company based in London and controlled by the Keswick family would have overall policy and strategic control of all Jardine Matheson Group companies.

Other companies like Jardine Matheson would launch the " Hong Kong Land Investment and Agency company Ltd " accumulating a wealth as large as the entire government's total revenue.

When Jardine was appointed England's captain for the 1932 – 33 English tour of Australia, a meeting was arranged with Nottinghamshire captain Arthur Carr and his two fast bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce at London's Piccadilly Hotel to discuss a plan to combat Bradman's extraordinary skills.

Of the four fast bowlers in the tour party, Gubby Allen was a voice of dissent in the English camp, refusing to bowl short on the leg side, and writing several letters home to England critical of Jardine, although he did not express this in public in Australia.

* 1900 – Douglas Jardine, English cricketer ( d. 1958 )

Weaving's first major role was in the 1984 Australian television series Bodyline, as the English cricket captain Douglas Jardine.

Douglas Jardine, the English captain ( and, like all England captains of the prewar era, a " gentleman amateur " leading a team partly made up of working-class professionals ), determined that Bradman was vulnerable to short-pitched bowling, and adopted " fast leg theory ".

* Douglas Jardine ( 1900 – 1958 ), English cricketer

Douglas Robert Jardine ( 1900 – 1958 ) was an English cricketer and captain of the England cricket team from 1931 to 1933 – 34.

Jardine is best known for captaining the English team during the 1932 – 33 Ashes tour of Australia, in which his team employed Bodyline tactics against Donald Bradman and other opposing Australian batsmen.

This tactic was considered by many to be intimidatory and physically threatening, and Jardine is widely regarded by commentators and writers as the person responsible for the English strategy on that tour.

Later, Jardine wrote about the Australian crowds, complaining over their involvement, but praising their knowledge and judgement of the game and describing them as more informed than English crowds.

The crowd became noisily angry as the ill feeling caused by the English bowling tactics spilled out, and Jardine later expressed regret that he had moved the fielders when he did.

Jardine himself saved the English selectors from any possible dilemma.

England's poor performance in the 1946 – 47 and 1948 Ashes also caused writers to remember Jardine more fondly as an icon of past English success.

He did not do particularly well as a pace bowler in 1930, but following Australia's tour of England in that summer, when Don Bradman scored freely against the English bowling, Voce was part of a meeting convened between the future English captain, Douglas Jardine, and Nottinghamshire captain, Arthur Carr, to come up with a tactic to defeat Bradman and the Australians.

His bowling was so good that he regained his Test place and, with Larwood, was named for the 1932 – 1933 English tour of Australia, to be captained by Jardine.

Jardine then used Larwood and Voce in similar fashion on the 1932-33 English tour of Australia, the tactic resulting in injuries to Australian batsmen and raising the ire of the Australian public.

In 1932 – 33, the English team led by Douglas Jardine toured Australia and won the Ashes in a very acrimonious series.

During the famous Bodyline series, Allen strongly disagreed with the controversial tactics of Douglas Jardine, the English captain, and refused to bowl leg theory ; he still took 21 wickets in the series.

Sutton began managing the Hollywood Blonds after they split with their manager, Johnny Rougeau. Don Jardine came up with the " Sir Oliver Humperdink " name, which he thought would draw heat from francophone fans in Quebec who hated anything English.

* Telling a fly-swatting English cricket captain, Douglas Jardine, to " Leave our flies alone, Jardine.

The first English-speaking settler was Thomas Powel who arrived in 1790, there was considerable colonization by English Ship-builders, Scottish Merchants and Irish Immigrants followed including many Irish Protestants who arrived to work in the Jardine Shipbuilding Yards around the year 1819 and they eventually cleared enough land to receive land grants following the 1820s survey by a Mr. Layton conducted around the Molus River area of nearby Weldford Parish, New Brunswick and the size of Elsipogtog First Nation was reduced to the current boundaries.