English Famous Names Starting with Letter H

An authority in the field of applied linguistics and language teaching, specifically English languag

An authority in the field of applied linguistics and language teaching, specifically English language learning and teaching.Widdowson is perhaps best known for his contribution to communicative language teaching. However, he has also published on other related subjects such as discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis, the global spread of English, English for Special Purposes and stylistics. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning calls him "probably the most influential philosopher of the late twentieth century for international ESOL" (674).

Was an English tennis player.As of 2008 he was the last male tennis player from the United Kingdom t

Was an English tennis player.As of 2008 he was the last male tennis player from the United Kingdom to reach the final of Wimbledon, achieving that in 1932 and 1938. He was also a finalist at the 1937 French Open. Along with Fred Perry, he was a vital part of the British team that won the Davis Cup three times from 1933-35. He is also remembered as the first tennis player to wear shorts.

Was an English cricketer. Persse was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast. Persse made h

Was an English cricketer. Persse was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast. Persse made his first-class debut for Hampshire County Cricket Club in the 1905 County Championship against Surrey. Persse represented Hampshire in 51 first-class match

Was a British middleweight amateur boxer.

Was a British middleweight amateur boxer.

Was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman whose first-class career with Sussex lasted

Was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman whose first-class career with Sussex lasted from 1926 to 1948. He stood as a first-class umpire in 1949 and 1950, and played one match for the Commonwealth XI in India in 1949-50, his last first-clas

Was a British fencer who appeared at six Olympic Games, winning two silver medals in 1960 and 1964.

Was a British fencer who appeared at six Olympic Games, winning two silver medals in 1960 and 1964. No British fencer has won an Olympic medal since. He was born in London. He competed with all three weapons (doing so in the 1956 and 1964 Olympics) but he

Was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1920. He played three games for Derbyshire dur

Was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1920. He played three games for Derbyshire during the 1920 season, all during July. His debut was against Yorkshire when he took 2 wickets for 18 runs.

Was an English cricketer. Tate was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm roundarm fast. Tate m

Was an English cricketer. Tate was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm roundarm fast. Tate made his first-class debut for Hampshire in 1869 against the Marylebone Cricket Club, who Hampshire played twice that season. Tate stood as an Umpire in a s

was a professional photographer based in Oxford, England. His studio was in Broad Street, Oxford.He

was a professional photographer based in Oxford, England. His studio was in Broad Street, Oxford.Henry Taunt's black and white photographs are mainly views of Oxford, Oxfordshire (together with surrounding counties) and the River Thames. He produced the first pocket guide to the River Thames to be illustrated with photographs. In the 1860s, it covered the upper Thames, but it expanded its range over several editions

Is a former English professional footballer. He is most famous for playing for Cardiff City in the 1

Is a former English professional footballer. He is most famous for playing for Cardiff City in the 1925 FA Cup Final and being part of the team that won the 1927 FA Cup, although he missed the final through injury.

Was an English cricketer. Everett played a single first-class match for Hampshire (pre-county club)

Was an English cricketer. Everett played a single first-class match for Hampshire (pre-county club) in 1861 against the Marylebone Cricket Club.

Was an English first-class cricketer who became a Test cricket umpire. Yarnold was a diminutive lowe

Was an English first-class cricketer who became a Test cricket umpire. Yarnold was a diminutive lower-order right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper who played for Worcestershire. He made his first-class debut in an end-of-season match in the 1938 season a

Was an English cricketer who played for Surrey. He was an all-rounder: a right-handed batsman and a

Was an English cricketer who played for Surrey. He was an all-rounder: a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. He played six times for the Players against the Gentlemen between 1923 and 1928. He was Surrey coach from 1935 to 1939 and di

Was an Indian-born English cricketer who played one first-class match, for Worcestershire against Le

Was an Indian-born English cricketer who played one first-class match, for Worcestershire against Leicestershire, in 1914. His part in the drawn game was minimal: he scored 2 not out from number 11 in his only innings, and made no dismissals.

Was a British male tennis player and the younger of the Baddeley twins. In February 1895 the brother

Was a British male tennis player and the younger of the Baddeley twins. In February 1895 the brothers qualified in London as solicitors. They joined their uncle and father Thomas and E. P. Baddeley in Leadenhall Street at the family firm, founded by their

Was an English cricketer. He was a slow bowler who played for Gloucestershire. He was born in Chelte

Was an English cricketer. He was a slow bowler who played for Gloucestershire. He was born in Cheltenham and died in Wiltshire. Blagrave made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1922 season, against Derbyshire. From the lower order, he scored a duck in the first innings in which he batted, and 12 runs in the second.

Was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Derbyshire during the 1897 se

Was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Derbyshire during the 1897 season. Bostock was born in Ilkeston of a mining family, and was a child when his father died. He represented Derbyshire in four first-class games, the first coming in a miscellaneous match against Marylebone Cricket Club, in which he scored nine runs from the opening order, but Derbyshire were to go down to a two-wicket defeat. Bostock later played three games in the 1897 County Championship, his career high score of 36 coming against Nottinghamshire. However, he was out of the team by the end of the year.

Was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played first-class cricket for Kent. He

Was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played first-class cricket for Kent. He was born in Bickley and died in Keston. Bouch made his first and only first-class appearance in 1892 against Marylebone Cricket Club. The team suffered an innings defeat, with Bouche being caught LBW off the bowling of John Thomas Hearne. Bouch's only other cricketing appearance came in a miscellaneous Gentlemen v. Players match two months later, in a game which the Gentlemen, which he represented, won by a 170 run margin.

Was an English photographer as well as a chemical engineer. He was the fourth son of The Reverend Wi

Was an English photographer as well as a chemical engineer. He was the fourth son of The Reverend William Comyns Berkeley and Harriet Elizabeth Bowyer Nichols Berkeley. Berkeley was educated at Uppingham School[2], was a member of the Royal Photographic S

Was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who playe

Was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who played for Essex during the 1937 season. Brunwin was born in Layer-de-la-Haye and died in Colchester. In the single first-class match in which he played, Brunwin, a tailender, made two runs before a first-innings declaration in an innings in which team-mates Reginald Taylor, Jack O'Connor and Stan Nichols each scored centuries. The game finished in an innings victory for the Essex side.

Was an English cricketer who played one first-class match, for Worcestershire against Lancashire at

Was an English cricketer who played one first-class match, for Worcestershire against Lancashire at Old Trafford in 1946. He was mostly a club cricketer, playing for Old Hill Cricket Club between 1932 and 1958, and serving as the club's president; in this

Was an English cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire from 1905 to 1910. He made hi

Was an English cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire from 1905 to 1910. He made his debut for Derbyshire in a single match in 1905 against Leicestershire when he failed to score in either innings. He played twice in 1906 and then turned out nine times in 1907. After a break in 1908 he played two games in 1909 and a single game in 1910. Cooper was a right-hand batsman and played 28 innings in 15 first class matches with a top score of 23 and an average of 9.00.

Was an English cricketer. Blake was a right-handed batsman who played as an occasional wicketkeeper.

Was an English cricketer. Blake was a right-handed batsman who played as an occasional wicketkeeper. As a child Hake was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College, where he represented the school in cricket. During the First World War Hake serve

Played 171 first-class cricket matches for Somerset in a career that last for 20 years from 1927. He

Played 171 first-class cricket matches for Somerset in a career that last for 20 years from 1927. He was also passed over at Cambridge for hockey, failing to win his university Blue for the sport, though he later played three times for the England team.

An English physicist and natural philosopher, who served as president of the Royal Astronomical Soci

An English physicist and natural philosopher, who served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953, is best known for his opposition to Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity and the protracted controversy that this provoked.Dingle was a member of the British government eclipse expeditions of 1927 (Colwyn Bay) and 1932 (Montreal), both of which failed to make any observations due to overcast skies. He spent most of 1932 at the California Institute of Technology as a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar. There he met the theoretical cosmologist R. C. Tolman, and studied relativistic cosmology.