Category: Presidents of Surrey CCC

Category: Presidents of Surrey CCC

* County Championship ( England and Wales ) – Surrey CCC

* 25 & 26 June — the new Surrey CCC played its inaugural first-class match v. Kent CCC at The Oval, winning by 10 wickets

* Champion County – Surrey CCC

* Surrey CCC wins the first of four consecutive Champion County titles, the team at this time including William Caffyn, Tom Lockyer, Edgar Willsher, HH Stephenson and Julius Caesar

* Champion County – Surrey CCC

* Champion County – Surrey CCC

* Champion County – Surrey CCC

* Champion County – Surrey CCC

Yorkshire CCC plays its initial first-class match v. Surrey CCC at The Oval on 4, 5 & 6 June.

* 2, 3 & 4 June — Gloucestershire CCC plays its initial first-class match v. Surrey at Durdham Downs, near Bristol.

** First Twenty20 Cup series held in England and won by Surrey CCC

The billionaire Paul Getty, who had a great affinity for cricket and was at one time Surrey CCC President built a replica of the Oval on his Wormsley Park estate.

A similar situation existed with Kent CCC and Surrey CCC.

Category: Presidents of Surrey CCC

Surrey CCC has had three notable periods of great success in its history.

: For more information about cricket in Surrey before the formation of Surrey CCC, see History of cricket to 1725 and Surrey county cricket teams.

Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey, England, in 1894.

From 1976 to 1978, Widdecombe was a councillor for Runnymede District in Surrey.

In December 1941 Montgomery was given command of South-Eastern Command overseeing the defence of Kent, Sussex and Surrey.

Malden was born in Putney, Surrey, son of Jonas Malden, a surgeon.

The identity of the trumpeter was not public knowledge until 1994, when jazz musician and journalist Ron Simmonds revealed that it was the Surrey musician Ronnie Hunt.

The growth brought to Docklands enabled the Jubilee Line to be extended in 1999 to east London by a more southerly route than originally proposed, through Surrey Quays, Canary Wharf and the Greenwich Peninsula ( which was the next regeneration area ) to Stratford.

The Howland Great Dock in Rotherhithe ( built 1696 and later forming the core of the Surrey Commercial Docks ) was designed to address these problems, providing a large, secure and sheltered anchorage with room for 120 large vessels.

The first of the Georgian docks was the West India ( opened 1802 ), followed by the London ( 1805 ), the East India ( also 1805 ), the Surrey ( 1807 ), St Katharine ( 1828 ) and the West India South ( 1829 ).

Donald Campbell was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, the son of Malcolm, later Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of 13 world speed records in the 1920s and 30s in the famous Bluebird cars and boats, and his second wife, Dorothy Evelyn née Whittall.

During the ninth century, Essex was part of a sub-kingdom that included Sussex, Surrey and Kent.

Edward Gibbon was born in 1737, the son of Edward and Judith Gibbon at Lime Grove, in the town of Putney, Surrey.

The film was shot mainly in London and the Home Counties, including Hampstead, Greenwich Hospital, Betchworth in Surrey, Amersham in Buckinghamshire, St Bartholomew-the-Great ( wedding # 4 ) and West Thurrock in Essex.

Greater London was formally created by the London Government Act 1963, which took force on 1 April 1965, replacing the former administrative counties of Middlesex and London, adding the City of London, which was not under the London County Council, and absorbing parts of Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire.

It was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd ( SSTL ), and successfully launched on 28 December 2005 by the European Space Agency and the Galileo Joint.

Her last novel was Daniel Deronda, published in 1876, whereafter she and Lewes moved to Witley, Surrey ; but by this time Lewes's health was failing and he died two years later on 30 November 1878.

However, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 1011 relates that Vikings overran " all Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Haestingas ", indicating the town was still considered a separate ' county ' or province to its neighbours 240 years after Offa's conquest.

Major was born at the St. Helier Hospital in Sutton, Surrey, the son of Gwen Major and former Music Hall performer Tom Major-Ball ( né Abraham Thomas Ball ), who was 64 years old when John was born.

He was raised to the peerage as Baron Abinger, of Abinger in the County of Surrey and of the City of Norwich, in 1835, taking his title from the Surrey estate he had bought in 1813.

On 14 October 1968, the band announced the new name and played their first show at the University of Surrey ( at its original Battersea Park location, not at Guildford ) on 25 October ; this was followed by a short British tour.

Surrey was founded on June 18, 1900 and named after Surrey, England by Great Northern Railway officials.

In 1887 Ashtead Cricket Club was founded and since then they have progressed into the Premier league of the Surrey Championship.

Born into a family whose wealth was largely founded on gunpowder production, John Evelyn was born in Wotton, Surrey, and grew up in the Sussex town of Lewes.

The Venerable Bede states that Erconwald, who became Bishop of London in 674, founded the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter of Chertsey in 666, and Frithuwald, who was sub-king or regent of Surrey, joined in the grant endowing the abbey with certain lands.

Julia Arnold also founded in 1902 Prior's Field School a still existing girl's school in Godalming, Surrey.

* Bullfrog Productions in Surrey, England, founded in 1987, acquired in 1995, merged with EA UK and effectively closed in 2001.

This colony was probably founded as a result of contact with the Surrey Diggers.

In 1954 Muir founded an amateur dramatic society, " Thorpe Players ", in the village of Thorpe, Surrey where he lived for many years.

The Yehudi Menuhin School is a specialist music school in Surrey, England, founded in 1963 by violinist Yehudi Menuhin.

The John Innes Horticultural Institution was founded in 1910 at Merton Park, Surrey ( now London Borough of Merton ), with funds bequeathed by John Innes, a merchant and philanthropist.

The theatre was founded in 1818 by James King and Daniel Dunn ( formerly managers of the Surrey Theatre in Bermondsey ), and John Thomas Serres, then Marine painter to the King who managed to secure the formal patronage of Princess Charlotte and her husband Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg naming the theatre the Royal Coburg Theatre.

He founded the Orpheus Trust in 1998, based in a previous family home in Godstone, Surrey, offering performing arts experiences to young people with various disabilities ; he also started the Stilgoe Family Concerts series at the Royal Festival Hall, which feature young performers and regular commissions of new music.

The company was founded by engineer Geoffrey Taylor in Surbiton, Surrey, and produced its first automobile in 1929.

Very soon after, on 10 April 1878, London Scottish FC was founded in MacKay's Tavern, London, and initially played on Blackheath Common, and later at Richmond Athletic Ground in Surrey.

Castle Acre Priory, in the village of Castle Acre, Norfolk, England, is thought to have been founded in 1089 by William de Warenne the son the 1st Earl of Surrey who had founded England's first Cluniac priory at Lewes in 1077.

The building of the church, as well as nearby Forde Abbey ( founded in 1136 ), was superintended by Cistercian monks from Waverley, Surrey.

* P1 International, a Prestige and Super Car Private Members Club founded by Damon Hill with Michael Breen based in Leatherhead, Surrey, England

The Social Deviants were founded by singer / writer Mick Farren ( born Michael Anthony Farren, 3 September 1943, in Gloucester, Gloucestershire ) in 1967 out of the Ladbroke Grove UK Underground community, featuring Pete Munro on bass ; Clive Muldoon on guitar, Mike Robinson on guitar and Russell Hunter on drums ( born Barry Russell Hunter, 26 April 1946, in Woking, Surrey ).

The club was founded in 1953 as Croydon Amateurs FC, the club spent their first 10 years in the Surrey Senior League but failed to win the championship.

Action for Blind People was founded in 1857 as the Surrey Association for the General Welfare of the Blind and later became the London Association for the Blind.