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 shrimped - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about shrimped   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Hooded shrimp Athanas nitescens in a rockpool on the English coast.
The European common shrimp Crangon vulgaris is greenish, translucent, has its first pair of legs ending in pincers, possesses no rostrum (the beaklike structure which extends forwards from the head in some crustaceans), and has comparatively shorter antennae than the prawn.
Synalpheus regalis, a shrimp that lives within sponges in the coral reefs of Belize, was discovered in 1996 to live in social colonies with a structure resembling that of social insects, such as ants.
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 Cricinfo - Players and Officials - Shrimp Leveson Gower
Known wherever cricket is played as Shrimp, a nickname given him, presumably because of his slight physique, during his schooldays, he was born at Limpsfield, Surrey, on May 8, 1873, the seventh of twelve sons of Mr.
Leveson Gower also had considerable experience of cricket outside England.
During the American trip some of the newspapers experienced difficulty over Leveson Gower's name, and he found himself referred to in print as The Hyphenated Worry and The Man with the Sanguinary Name.
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 Cricinfo - The spirit of Scarborough   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Shrimp Leveson Gower was not the founder of the Festival any more than Emile de Lissa was the founder of the Barbarian Rugby Football Club.
Shrimp Leveson Gower's associations with cricket were remarkable.
In comparing one age of cricket with another, Leveson Gower once wrote: "One of the casualties of World War I was country-house cricket which never recovered its former glories in the changed era that followed 1918.
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 shrimp - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about shrimp
It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast armies till it reaches fresh water, when it turns about and crawls back again to the salt.
Tales of the Fish Patrol by London, Jack View in context
`Soles and eels, of course,' the Gryphon replied rather impatiently: `any shrimp could have told you that.
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 Cricinfo - Players and Officials - Shrimp Leveson Gower   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Sir Henry Dudley Gresham Leveson-Gower, who died in London on February 1, aged 80, was associated with M.C.C., Surrey and Scarborough Festiva1 cricket for over fifty years.
Mason hit 147 and 71 and took eight wickets for 139; Leveson Gower made 16 and 83 and dismissed eight batsmen for 33 runs.
His highest innings against Cambridge was 73 in 1895, when he also took seven wickets for 84 runs.
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 Tony Lock - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Graham Anthony Richard Lock (5 July 1929 - 29 March 1995) was an English cricketer who played primarily as a left-arm spinner.
Born in Limpsfield, Surrey, Tony Lock had the weighty backing of HDG Leveson Gower and made his first-class debut for Surrey County Cricket Club at just 17 in 1946, but did not play regularly for his county until 1949.
In 1951 he took 105 wickets, and broke the 100-wicket barrier every year up to and including 1962, on two occasions (1955 and 1957) claiming more than 200 victims.
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 Jock_cameron info here at en.14th-century.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
As vice-captain in 1935, Cameron was the focal iota of a surprisingly firm South African superficial whose batting strength was aplenty to pass old-fashioned it clean sweep bygone England by Test to nil (though England had the greatest of entire four draws).
He also hit 132 against second-placed Derbyshire 'n 160 against an eleven raised by Shrimp Leveson Gower.
However, when Cameron returned to South Africa he was, to the regret of the cricket world, afflicted with typhoid fever.
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 Surrey Grasshoppers Cricket Club - History
Formed in 1924 with the primary objective of encouraging cricket in all Surrey schools the club prospered under its founders.
Names like “Shrimp Leveson-Gower, Hilary Chadwick –Healy and Douglas Strachan will be familiar to some of our older members.
No record of names would be complete without the late Derek Fenner, a very fine left arm spin bowler who did so much during his 40 plus years with the club and in his own way fostered the traditions of the club while always looking to the future.
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 A Human Interest Story
At oval, after another batting collapse, someone picked the sportsman and remarked that John Human just scored 231 out of 324 for Berks vs Herts.
Immidiatley, wires were sent out and Human arrived at eastbourne next morning in time to be included in University side to take on "Shrimp" Leveson-Gower's side.
Going in at #7 to allow him time to rest from the trip, he went out and scored 158* and picked the fastest blue on record.
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The new ministers are in, and the old ones out; I am out with them, I and Leveson; and that is all in the House of Commons.
Lord Gower~ and that Is all in the House of Lords..
In a conversation with Lord Malmesbury, he described himself as assailed in prose and verse by his eager and ardent young friends, Canning and Leveson.
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 Cricinfo - Rest of England XI 1901
Rest of England XI which beat Yorkshire (County Champions) in 1901 - (Back) RB Brooks, Albert Trott, Gilbert Jessop, George Wilson.
(Middle) AO Jones, Plum Warner, Shrimp Leveson Gower, George Beldam, Charles Fry.
The home of the Cricket World Cup final
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 Archie_maclaren info here at en.12-year.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
He was named sole of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1895.
Preceded by: Lord Hawke Arthur Jones English ethnic cricket captain 1899-1902 1909 Followed by: Plum Warner Shrimp Leveson Gower
Archie MacLaren See also See also History of Test cricket (1890 to 1900)
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