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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Bernard Bosanquet, Herbie Hewett, Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, Edgar Lubbock, Coote Hedley, Alfred Lyttelton, Herbert Whitfield, George Harris, 4th Baron Harris, Charles Studd, Leslie Balfour-Melville, Arthur Newton, Percy de Paravicini, Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, Charles Hubert Boulby Blount, Alfred Evans, Andrew Stoddart, Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock, Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley, Spencer Gore, Arthur Ridley, Henry Arkwright, Fleetwood Edwards, Edward Stanhope, Reginald Hargreaves, Edward Lyttelton, A. G. Steel, Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet, Robert Allan Fitzgerald, Edward Tylecote, Hylton Philipson, George Studd, Stanley Christopherson, George Vernon, William Kenyon-Slaney, George Stanhope, 7th Earl of Chesterfield, A. J. Webbe, Christopher Heseltine, Gerald Portal, Lovick Friend, Francis Lacey, Robert Antrobus, Hugh Bromley-Davenport, A. P. Lucas, John Hartley, Edmund Carter, William Patterson, Arthur Hill, Teddy Wynyard, Foster Cunliffe, Richard Mitchell, Harvey Fellows, Cecil Wilson, John Lubbock, 2nd Baron Avebury, Charles Clarke, Joseph McCormick, Harry Leadbeater, Harry Verelst, Robert Frank. Excerpt: Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet (13 October 1877 - 12 October 1936) was an English cricketer. He is best known for inventing the googly, a delivery designed to deceive the batsman. When bowled, it appears to be a leg break, but after pitching the ball turns in the opposite direction to that which is expected, behaving as an off break instead. Bosanquet, who played first-class cricket for Middlesex between 1898 and 1919, appeared in seven Test matches for England as an all-rounder. He was chosen as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1905. Bosanquet played cricket for Eton College from 1891 to 1896, before gaining his Blue at Oriel College, Oxford. He p...