biography
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| lived:
| (1755–1832)
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| biography:
| Sportsman, born in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. He was founder of Lord's Cricket Ground in London, first opening a cricket ground in Dorset Square in London in 1787, which became the home of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the regulating body of English cricket, and also the county ground of Middlesex. It was moved to its present site at St John's Wood in 1814. |
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