“a high point of (his) early years”
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W. G. Grace
William Gilbert Grace was an English cricketer who is widely held to have been one of the sport's all-time greatest players. Always known by his initials as "WG", his first-class career spanned a record-equalling 44 seasons from 1865 to 1908. Test cricket originated during his career, and he represented England in 22 matches from 1880 to 1899. In domestic cricket, he was mostly associated with Glo…
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science · English cricketer (1848–1915) · cricketer · physician · athlete · also W. G. Grace, William Gilbert Grace, Dr. W. G. Grace, Grace
Born 18 July 1848 · Died 23 October 1915 · Q616068
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Won the Premiership Rugby with Bath Rugby (2024-2025).
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity” in Nature — cited 6,190 times.
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1975· 1 entry
Supported this view by holding that Grace "created modern cricket"
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1948· 1 entry
Coincided with the centenary of Grace's birth and carried a tribute which spoke of Grace as "King in his own domain" and his "Olympian personality"
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1923· 1 entry
Was performed by Sir Stanley Jackson, who had suggested the inclusion of the words The Great Cricketer in the dedication
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1915· 1 entry
Died 1915-10-23.
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1896· 3 entries
Awarded Wisden Cricketer of the Year (1896).
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In appreciation of his "Indian Summer" season of 1895
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Said: "We were all told not to trust the Old Man as he was out to win every time and was a great bluffer"
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1895· 1 entry
A season that has been called his "Indian Summer"
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1891· 1 entry
When he scored no centuries and could only average 19
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1884· 1 entry
And it was in July of that year when Lancashire captain A
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1883· 1 entry
And caused him to miss a Gentlemen v Players match for the first time since 1867
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1880· 3 entries
Were members of the same England team, the first time three brothers played together in a Test match
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Scoring England's first-ever Test century with an innings of 154 at The Oval in what is retrospectively recognised as the inaugural Test match in England
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Played for England cricket team (1880–1899).
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1879· 2 entries
“s own testimonial fund. 1879 was a wet summer and, after the same thing happened to Ned Willsher”
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Was ruined by rain, Grace insisted on donating to Shaw the proceeds of another match that had been arranged to support Grace's own testimonial fund
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1878· 1 entry
It was another good season for Grace on the field as he completed a sixth successive double
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1877· 3 entries
Largely thanks to another outstanding season by Grace who scored 1,474 runs and took 179 wickets
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Gentlemen v Players was the most prestigious fixture in which a player could take part
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When Grace was already 28
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1876· 1 entry
And 1877, as well as sharing the unofficial title in 1873 and staking a claim for it in 1874
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1875· 1 entry
When he again completed the double with 1,498 runs and 191 wickets, his most successful season as a bowler
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1874· 1 entry
An Australian newspaper wrote: "We in Australia did not take kindly to WG
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1873· 2 entries
When he became the first player ever to complete the "double" of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in a season
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But consensus was that they shared it with Nottinghamshire
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1872· 1 entry
USEE played six matches, including games in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Grace's first visit to Scotland
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1871· 1 entry
A total of seventeen centuries were scored and Grace accounted for ten of them, including the first in a first-class match at Trent Bridge
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1870· 3 entries
Played for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club (1870–1899).
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That, as Birley put it, Grace "scorned the puny modern fashion of moustaches" and grew the enormous black beard that made him so recognisable
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Having developed from Dr Henry Grace's West Gloucestershire club
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1869· 2 entries
Played for Marylebone Cricket Club (1869–1904).
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After being proposed by the treasurer, Thomas Burgoyne, and seconded by the secretary, Robert Allan Fitzgerald
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1868· 1 entry
Grace received overtures from Caius College, Cambridge, which had a long medical tradition
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1866· 2 entries
When he played a match at Oxford, one of the Oxford players, Edmund Carter, tried to interest him in becoming an undergraduate
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Became widely recognised as the finest cricketer in England
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1865· 1 entry
But the heyday of the travelling teams was over and their organisers were desperate to feature new attractions
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1864· 1 entry
“no exaggeration to say that, between 1860 and 1870, English cricket passed through its most critical period”
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1863· 1 entry
Grace was taken seriously ill with pneumonia, and his father removed him from Ridgway House
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1854· 1 entry
When he was barely six years old, the occasion being a game between the All England Eleven (the AEE) and twenty-two of West Gloucestershire
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1848· 1 entry
Born 1848-07-18.
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1846· 1 entry
This club merged with the West Gloucestershire Cricket Club whose name was adopted until 1867; it has been said that the Grace family ran the West Gloucestershire "almost as a private club"
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1845· 1 entry
To represent several neighbouring villages including Downend
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1831· 1 entry
His parents were Henry Mills Grace and Martha (née Pocock), who were married in Bristol on Thursday, 3 November 1831 and lived out their lives at Downend, where Henry Grace was the local GP.
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1828· 1 entry
And Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) in 1830, passed this purposeful attitude on to each of his five sons
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