Nickname
Leveson Gower was nicknamed "Shrimp" at school, probably due to his shortness and slight physique, but few cricket sources refer to him by anything other than his initials. During a tour of America in 1897 organised by Plum Warner that Leveson Gower took part in, the Philadelphian journalist Ralph D. Paine published the following piece of humorous verse concerning the pronunciation of his surname:
- At one end stocky Jessop frowned,
- The human catapult
- Who wrecks the roofs of distant towns
- When set in his assault.
- His mate was that perplexing man
- We know as "Looshun-Gore",
- It isn’t spelt at all that way,
- We don’t know what it’s for.
- But as with Cholmondeley and St. John
- The alphabet is mixed,
- And Yankees cannot help but ask -
- "Why don't you get it fixed?"
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| Preceded by Archie MacLaren |
English national cricket captain 1909/10 |
Succeeded by Johnny Douglas |
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“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)