Dr WG Grace, English cricketer, walking out to bat Gilbert Talbot 19th January 1967

19th January 1967

This scene on the River Wansbeck

Besant was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1871

found in Bucklersbury

From the 'Life of the Virgin' series

Dr WG Grace, English cricketer, walking out to bat Gilbert Talbot 19th January 1967Dr WG Grace, English cricketer, walking out to bat, c1899. Regarded as possibly the greatest cricketer of all time, WG Grace (1848 1915) played first class cricket for 44 seasons from 1865 until 1908, representing Gloucestershire, London County Cricket Club, the MCC and England. A print from The Book of Cricket, a Gallery of Famous Players, edited by CB Fry, George Newnes Ltd, London, c1899.