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unusual facts about London County


London County

City of London, England, a city-county, and enclave of Greater London


Bill Brockwell

He played on for Surrey until 1903, but from 1900 his powers as a batsman declined severely and after two final first-class matches for London County he retired from cricket.

George Alfred Wilson

The 1900 season also saw him make his highest score of 78 against London County, batting at number 11 and adding 97 for the last wicket with Albert Bird; while in 1901, he played in a Rest of England side against Yorkshire, a game in which Gilbert Jessop scored 233 for the Rest of England in about two and a half hours.

Peter Randall Johnson

Against W. G. Grace's London County side, he took four for 99 and these remained the best bowling figures of his long career.

Willie Quaife

Quaife also played for W. G. Grace's London County team and spent the winter of 1912-13 playing for Griqualand West in South Africa.


see also

Brixton by-election, 1927

Nigel Colman was the Conservative and Unionist Party candidate was a business man, a breeder and exhibitor of light horses and represented Brixton on the London County Council.

George Hume

Sir George Hopwood Hume (1866–1946), leader of the London County Council and member of parliament for Greenwich

Harold Shearman

He was Chairman of the London County Council and subsequently first Chairman from 1964-66 of the Greater London Council, Chairman of the Inner London Educational Authortiy, President from 1962-71 of the School Journey Association, and a member of the Robbins Committee.

Laurence Gomme

He attended the City of London School to the age of sixteen, when he started work, first with a railway company, then with the Fulham board of works, finally, in 1873, with the Metropolitan Board of Works: he remained with it and its successor, the London County Council, until his retirement in 1914.

Leonidas de Montezuma

He scored 14 runs in London County's first-innings response of 249, before being dismissed by James Byrne.

Salomon van Abbé

He studied at London County Council Schools, the People’s Palace, Toynbee Hall, Central School of Art and at the LCC School of Photoengraving and Lithography at Bolt Court where he met Edmund Blampied, Robert Charles Peter and John Nicolson, all fellow etchers.

Stonecroft

Shubel Smith House, Ledyard, Connecticut, known also as Stonecroft, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in New London County

Walter Yates

Walter Baldwyn Yates, English barrister and member of the London County Council