Sport
- Robert Barker, played for England in the first international football match
- Francis Chichester, round the world yachtsman
- Jason Dunford, swimmer
- Alfred St. George Hamersley, English rugby union player in the first international match, later team captain
- Arthur Sumner Gibson, English rugby union player in the first international match in 1871
- Jamie Gibson, rugby union player
- John Hunt, leader of the first successful ascent of Mount Everest
- Edward Kewley, nineteenth century England Rugby captain
- Robert Kingsford, England international footballer and FA Cup winner
- Iain MacDonald-Smith, Olympic sailor, Gold medal Mexico 1968)
- Jake Meyer, mountaineer
- Sydney Morse rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1875
- Mark Phillips, Olympic horseman and former husband of The Princess Royal
- Edward Shaw, cricketer
- Reggie Spooner, cricketer
- Allan Steel, cricketer
- Mark Tomlinson, England International polo player
- Charles Plumpton Wilson, England footballer
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)
““Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
The End”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)