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W. G. Grace Jr

W. G. Grace Jr

English cricketer

William Gilbert Grace Jr (6 July 1874 – 2 March 1905) was an English first-class cricketer who was the first-born son of W. G. Grace.

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He won scholarships to Clifton College and Pembroke College, Cambridge,[1] where he studied mathematics.[2] He played in 57 matches for Cambridge University, Gloucestershire and London County in a career lasting from 1893 to 1903, playing as an all-rounder. He made 1,324 runs at an average of 15.21 with a highest score of 79, and took 42 wickets at an average of 39.45 with a best of six for 79.[3]

Grace often played for Gloucestershire, London County and MCC alongside his father, his brother Charles Grace and his uncle E. M. Grace, mostly under his father's captaincy. Grace also played rugby union for the Northants and East Midland XV.

He became a schoolteacher, teaching at Oundle School in Northamptonshire and then at Royal Naval College, Osborne.[4] He died in 1905 at the age of 30 after an operation for appendicitis.[5]

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    "Grace, William Gilbert (GR893WG)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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    Richard Tomlinson, Amazing Grace: The Man Who Was W.G., Little, Brown, London, 2015, pp. 240–41.
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    W. G. Grace Jr – CricketArchive.
  4. [4]
    Tomlinson, p. 278.
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    Wisden Obituary. espncricinfo.com
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