Jhall1

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My interests include cricket, weather and climatology, SF and fantasy, and contract bridge. A fuller list can be found in my LiveJournal profile here: http://jhall1.livejournal.com/profile

A list of the articles that I have created (or in a few cases carried out a major expansion of) follows.

Done

Cricket-related

Biographies

Players and umpires:

• the 19th century cricketers Alfred Mynn, George Griffith, George Pinder, William Yardley and Richard Daft,
• the female cricketers Enid Bakewell, Sheila Hill and Netta Rheinberg,
• the cricket umpires Syd Buller, Charlie Elliott and Bill Reeves,
• the Surrey cricketers Tom Barling, Tom Rushby, Eddie Watts, Alan Peach, Bob Gregory, Stan Squires, Tom Shepherd, Jack Parker, David Fletcher, Ted Brooks, Fred Stedman, Grahame Clinton, Tom Clark, Cyril Wilkinson (major expansion), James Street, Monty Garland-Wells, Livingstone Walker, Fred Holland, Ted Barratt, David Gibson, Mike Edwards, Matthew Spriegel, Stuart Meaker, Stewart Storey, Charles Hoare, Frederick Miller, Sam Curran, Michael Barton, and Joe O'Gorman (also a music hall entertainer),
• the Somerset cricketer and writer R. C. Robertson-Glasgow,
• the Essex cricketer Charles Kortright,
• the Sussex cricketers Ken Suttle, Harry Parks, George Cox senior and George Cox junior,
• the Hampshire cricketer Jack Newman,
• Frank Cobden, of "Cobden's Match" fame,
• Samuel Butler,
• Brian Boobbyer,
• Frank Parr,
• considerably expanded Ranji Hordern, Gerry Alexander and Michael Anderton (psychologist)‎

Administrators, writers, commentators and scorers:

• the cricketing knights Francis Lacey and Frederick Toone,
• the noted editor of Wisden Sydney Pardon (replacing an existing single sentence stub),
• the cricket writers John Woodcock (cricket writer), Alan Gibson, A.A. Thomson, Ralph Barker, Denzil Batchelor, Dudley Carew, Louis Duffus, Gerald Howat, Sir Home Gordon, Simon Wilde, Herbert Farjeon, Ralph Dellor and Michael Melford, and expanded Reginald Shirley Brooks and Martin Johnson (writer),
• the cricket historian, administrator and coach Harry Altham,
• Albert Craig (The Surrey Poet),
• the BBC radio cricket scorer Arthur Wrigley and his TV counterpart Roy Webber,
• the writer and Surrey scorer Keith Booth (scorer),
• the Indian cricket journalist Dicky Rutnagur,
• the commentators on cricket and other subjects Howard Marshall (broadcaster), Robert Hudson (broadcaster) and Rex Alston,
• the economist, cartoonist, editor of Punch and writer on cricket and other subjects Bernard Hollowood,
• the bibliographer E.W. Padwick.

Other

• the Woodbridge Road cricket ground
• Prince's Cricket Ground
• Central Recreation Ground, Hastings
• The University Match (cricket)
• the eminent late 18th century Alresford Cricket Club
• Southgate Cricket Club
• the Women's Cricket Association
• the magazine Playfair Cricket Monthly
• the Cricket Reporting Agency
• West Indian cricket team in Australia in 1960-61 (expanded from a minimalist stub)
• English cricket team in West Indies in 1959-60
• English cricket team in Australia in 1901-02
• English cricket team in Australia in 1907-08
• English cricket team in Australia in 1911-12
• double (cricket)
• Cardiff MCC University
• expanded Australian cricket team in England in 1902.

On bridge

• the bridge writer Hugh Kelsey,
• Gold Cup (bridge),
• Raymond Brock,
• Dr Paul Stern,
• Tony Priday,
• Nicola Smith,
• Michelle Brunner,
• Maria Erhart,
• Patrick Jourdain,
• World Bridge Games,
• Richard Lederer
• Albert Dormer.

On other subjects

• George Edwards (aviation),
• the climatologist Gordon Manley,
• the 18th century meteorologist Thomas Barker,
• the radio presenter Jack de Manio,
• the Welsh essayist and biographer Byron Rogers (author),
• the London-resident Persian writer and folksinger Shusha Guppy,
• the writer of humourous verse Patrick Barrington,
• the producer of revues, playwright and writer Herbert Farjeon,
• Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth, 17th century politician, nobleman and member of the Royal Society,
• The Western Brothers.

To do

Cricket

early Surrey captains

F Burbridge (1858-1865)

E Dowson (1866)

W J Collyer (1867)

C Calvert (1868)

J C Gregory (1871)

George Strachan (1872-1875, 1877-1878) - expand

A Chandler (1876) - expand

A. P. Lucas (1879) - expand

John Shuter - expand

Surrey players with 100+ f-c appearances for the county

A. Baker

Tom Barling (expand)

W.E. Davis

E.G. Goatly

H.S. Harrison

Richard Humphrey (cricketer, born 1848)

Robin Jackman (expand)

G.J. Whittaker (expand)

Younis Ahmed (expand)

Other

• Mike Hooper (cricketer)
• improve Sammy Woods
• Denys Wilcox
• Patrick Eagar
• Diana Rait Kerr
• David Foot (sports journalist)
• Mike Willett
• expand Graham Monkhouse
• expand Arnold Long
• Chris Waller
• Jason Ratcliffe
• Mike Buss
• Tony Buss
• JC Shaw
• Ray Julian
• Henry Perkins - Secretary of MCC
• David Rayvern Allen
• Charles Bray (cricketer)
• Cricket Writers' Club (?)
• Crawford White
• Alex Bannister (cricket writer)
• David Foot (sports writer)
• Geoffrey Copinger
• David Lemmon
• Ronald Mason (cricket writer)
• Patrick Eagar
• Frank Keating (writer)
• Bob Arrowsmith
• Charles Pardon (expand)
• Peter Griffiths
• Stanley Jackson (expand)
• Lord Hawke (expand)
• Tom Rushby (expand)
• Peter Loader - expand
• Jack Flavell - expand
• Teddy Wynyard - expand
• Alec Kennedy - expand
• Peter Eckersley (cricketer) - expand
• Roger Knight - expand
• Tom Rushby - expand
• Jack Richards - expand
• Tony Pigott - expand
• Younis Ahmed - expand
• Richard Ingleby Jefferson - expand
• Harry Pilling - expand
• John Murray (cricketer) - expand
• Reg Simpson - expand
• Malcolm Nash - expand
• Henry Wood (cricketer) - expand and add redirect from Harry Wood (cricketer)
• Fred Tate (expand)
• Gordon Barker (expand)
• John Shepherd (cricketer) - expand
• Keith Boyce - expand
• Duleep - expand
• Alan Marshal - expand
• Stuart Leary (expand)
• Peter Eckersley (cricketer) - expand
• Jason Ratcliffe
• Mike Turner (cricketer) - expand
• English cricket team in Australia in 1928–29 (expand)
• English cricket team in the West Indies in 1929–30 (expand)
• English cricket team in the West Indies in 1947–48 (expand)
• English cricket team in the West Indies in 1967–68 (expand)
• English cricket team in India in 1984–85 (expand)
• South African cricket team in England in 1901 (currently redirects to 1901 English cricket season)
• South African cricket team in England in 1904 (currently redirects to 1904 English cricket season)
• English cricket team in South Africa in 1913–14 (expand)
• Professional Cricketers' Association (expand)
• revise Surrey County Cricket Club, in particular adding a list of notable players based on objective criteria (eg 10+ Test appearances, Wisden CoY, 10,000+ fc runs or 500+ fc wickets or 250+fc dismissals for the county)
• Duleepsinhji (expand)
• Bosser Martin

Bridge

• John Armstrong (bridge)
• European Bridge Championships
• Egmont von Dewitz
• Waldemar von Zedtwitz (expand)
• Macallan Invitational Tournament (formerly the Sunday Times)
• Sabine Auken (expand)
• Pat Davies
• Heather Dhondy
• Nevena Senior (merits article independent of her husband's)
• Guy Ramsey

Weather

• West Country blizzard of 1891
• Christmas snowstorm of 1927

Other

• Western Brothers (expand)
• Pat Taaffe (improve)
• Riders of the Range

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