W g grace biography of abraham
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Edward Mills Grace was a very important person in Thornbury and his name was well-known throughout the region because of his work as a medical practitioner and coroner and his involvement in local affairs. He was even more well-known as a cricketer and his fame in this context spread throughout the country and the other cricket-playing nations. It was said of ‘E. M.’ (as he was called) that ‘But for the accident that his own brother proved greater than himself, E. M. Grace would have lived in cricket history as perhaps the most remarkable player the game has produced. Barring W. G., it would be hard indeed to name a man who was a stronger force on a side or a more remarkable match winner’.
As a cricketer, he was often referred as ‘The Coroner’. We do not intend to write about his achievements on the cricket field as these have been well documented elsewhere on the internet. Click here to read one profile
Here we will write briefly about his family, the houses where he lived and the various other activities which kept him busy when not playing cricket. We have attached a separate page giving a biography of EM written by his son, Dr Edgar Mervyn Grace, which does include some ref
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W. G. Grace in 1902, photographed by George Beldam (Image: Wikipedia)
How do you follow in the footsteps of a legendary cricketer? How do you take the place of a Garry Sobers, Richard Hadlee, Sachin Tendulkar, Shane Warne or Muttiah Muralidaran? It is a thankless task and in most cases will almost certainly involve disappointment. For example, the obsessive search for the “next Botham” occupied English cricket for twenty years and derailed the careers of several good players. But how much more difficult is it for the children of a legend? While there have been many father-son cricket combinations, including several in which both generations played Test cricket, it is almost an inviolable rule that the sons of great cricketers rarely match their fathers. In the case of Ian Botham, his son Liam chose a different sport entirely. How difficult must it then be for the children of those cricketers who transcend greatness altogether? Don Bradman’s son, conscious of the impossible burden of carrying the family name, was known for most of his life as John Bradsen. What of the children of perhaps the most famous cricketer of all? W. G. Grace had three sons and a daughter. Only one of his children escaped from his shadow, and i
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by Richard Tomlinson
(Little, Brown £25)
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