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Marjorie Pollard — Founder of English Women's Cricket Journalism

Pollard / Women's cricket in England

1925-08-15

Through the 1920s Marjorie Pollard was the leading all-rounder in English women's cricket and the founding journalist of the women's game. Her playing career, her organisation of the 1926 Colwall cricket week, and her editorship of Women's Cricket magazine from 1930 onward made her the central figure in the institutional history of women's cricket in England.

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William Clarke's Death — End of the Founder of the All-England Eleven, 25 August 1856

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1856-08-25

William Clarke, the Nottinghamshire slow underarm bowler who founded the All-England Eleven in 1846 and turned professional touring cricket into a paying business, died on 25 August 1856 at Priory Lodge, Wandsworth Road, London, of paraplegia. He was 57. His death ended the four-year boycott of the United All-England Eleven and opened the way for the AEE v UAEE annual match that would shape the next decade of English cricket.

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