English Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Nottinghams

Was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Nottinghamshire. He was born in Arnold, Nottinghamshire and died in Farnham, Surrey. Barnsdale made just one first-class appearance, against Oxford University during the 1905 season. He scored a duck in the first innings of the match and ten runs in the second, and took one stumping. His first innings dismissal came courtesy of William Evans, for whom Barnsdale's wicket was one of a hat trick.

Was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1822 to 1850. He was mainl

Was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1822 to 1850. He was mainly associated with Surrey and was a member of the county team when Surrey County Cricket Club was founded in 1845. Bayley was employed by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) on its ground staff from 1832 to 1850 and played for the MCC team. He also played for Hampshire and Middlesex. Bayley was a right-handed batsman (RHB) and a slow roundarm bowler (unknown hand). He was in addition an occasional wicket-keeper. He made 83 known appearances in first-class cricket, including matches for The Bs (1822 to 1837), the South (1836) and the Players (1836).

Was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1823 to 1826. He was mainl

Was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1823 to 1826. He was mainly associated with Hampshire and made 6 known appearances in first-class matches.

Was a cytogenetist who developed the iron-acetocarmine staining technique which is used in the study

Was a cytogenetist who developed the iron-acetocarmine staining technique which is used in the study of chromosomes. He entered Mason College at the University of Birmingham in 1892 and received his BSc (Honours) from University College, London. He received an honorary DSc in 1922 from the University of Maine in recognition of his work.In his work with Albert F. Blakeslee at Cold Spring Harbor on Datura (1920-1927) and at the University of California, Berkeley (1928-1933) Belling used plants such as lilies and hyacinths to demonstrate that segments between non-homogenous chromosomes can interchange. He was able to make accurate estimates of chromosome numbers and proposed that chromomeres, the small condensations along the chromosome, were individual genes.

Was an English cricketer who played three first-class matches for Lancashire County Cricket Club bet

Was an English cricketer who played three first-class matches for Lancashire County Cricket Club between 1874 and 1876.

Was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler who played ten times

Was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler who played ten times for Worcestershire County Cricket Club between 1899 and 1901. Fereday made his first class debut against MCC at Lord's on 17 July 1899, opening the battin

Was an English footballer who played for England as a forward in the first international match again

Was an English footballer who played for England as a forward in the first international match against Scotland. He won his solitary England cap in England's first ever international match against Scotland on 30 November 1872. He also played cricket at club level, appearing for the M.C.C. against his university in May 1874.

Was an English professional cricketer. He was the brother of Henry Bentley. Bentley was mainly assoc

Was an English professional cricketer. He was the brother of Henry Bentley. Bentley was mainly associated with Middlesex and he made 13 known appearances in first-class matches from 1807 to 1817.

English physician, naturalist and miscellaneous writer.

English physician, naturalist and miscellaneous writer.

Was an English cricketer and umpire. As a player, he made 121 first-class appearances between 1912 a

Was an English cricketer and umpire. As a player, he made 121 first-class appearances between 1912 and 1930, having earlier played in the Minor Counties Championship for Staffordshire. In his teens and early twenties, Higgins played football as an inside

Was a cricketer who played one first class match for Yorkshire in 1898. Binns was a lower order righ

Was a cricketer who played one first class match for Yorkshire in 1898. Binns was a lower order right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper, and was called up for the match against Leicestershire at Grace Road, Leicester after regular Yorkshire wicketkeeper David Hunter was injured in the previous match against Nottinghamshire at Headingley. Binns made four runs in his only innings and stumped three Leicestershire batsmen. But Hunter's more regular deputy Arthur Bairstow was called in for the following game and Binns did not play first-class cricket again.

Was an English astronomer and scientific instrument maker who made important developments in astrono

Was an English astronomer and scientific instrument maker who made important developments in astronomical instrument design. Some of his instruments were used by Jeremiah Dixon.

Was an English mariner and explorer who commanded the first expedition known to have sighted the are

Was an English mariner and explorer who commanded the first expedition known to have sighted the areas named Enderby Land and Graham Land along the coast of Antarctica. The expedition also found a number of islands in the vicinity of Graham Land, includin

Was a British naturalist.Blackwall lived at Hendre House near Llanrwst in north Wales from 1833 unti

Was a British naturalist.Blackwall lived at Hendre House near Llanrwst in north Wales from 1833 until his death. He was interested in nature from an early age, first in birds and then spiders, on which he published his first article in 1827.He published A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland (2 vols., 1861-1864), which included accounts of 304 species and gave the first adequate descriptions of British spiders. Ten of the plates included were by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge and twelve were by the Irish naturalist Robert Templeton.

Was a British Olympic fencer. He competed at the 1908, 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics.

Was a British Olympic fencer. He competed at the 1908, 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics.

Was a British peer and cricketer. John Bligh was a noted amateur cricketer who made 27 known appear

Was a British peer and cricketer. John Bligh was a noted amateur cricketer who made 27 known appearances in major cricket matches between 1789 and 1796.

Was an English cricketer who played 75 times in first-class cricket for Worcestershire between 1919

Was an English cricketer who played 75 times in first-class cricket for Worcestershire between 1919 and 1935, captaining the county for the latter part of the 1929 and the whole of the 1930 seasons, although he played in only July and August of the latter year. In July 1929, Coventry returned to the Worcestershire side as captain, replacing Maurice Jewell who had resigned as a result of poor health.

Was the father of the founder of Boots the Chemists. Jesse Boot turned the company into a retailer k

Was the father of the founder of Boots the Chemists. Jesse Boot turned the company into a retailer known throughout the world..

Was a British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, notable for his interest in child development and his

Was a British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, notable for his interest in child development and his pioneering work in attachment theory.John Bowlby’s intellectual career began at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where he studied psychology and pre-clinical sciences. He won prizes for outstanding intellectual performance. After Cambridge, he took some time to work with maladjusted and delinquent children, then at the age of twenty-two enrolled at University College Hospital in London. At the age of twenty-six, he qualified in medicine. While still in medical school he also found time to enroll himself in the Institute for Psychoanalysis. Following medical school, he trained in adult psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital. In 1937, he qualified as a psychoanalyst, and he became president of Trinity College in 1938.

Was an English professional cricketer of the mid-Georgian period who made 5 known appearances in fir

Was an English professional cricketer of the mid-Georgian period who made 5 known appearances in first-class cricket. Later, in the 1740s, he appeared in several great matches on the Artillery Ground as "John Borah" and represented Kent. He played for Robert Colchin's XI, largely a Kent team, against Richard Newland's XI in 1745.

Was an English professional cricketer. He was mainly associated with Surrey and he made 18 known app

Was an English professional cricketer. He was mainly associated with Surrey and he made 18 known appearances in first-class matches from 1810 to 1828.

Was an English amateur cricketer. He was mainly associated with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and he

Was an English amateur cricketer. He was mainly associated with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and he made 28 known appearances in first-class matches from 1815 to 1828.

Was a prolific, deaf itinerant painter who produced many charming portraits of well-off New England

Was a prolific, deaf itinerant painter who produced many charming portraits of well-off New England families, especially their children. He lived much of the latter half of his life in Buxton, Maine, USA, recording the faces of much of Maine's elite socie

Is a former English cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire in 1955 and 1956. He joi

Is a former English cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire in 1955 and 1956. He joined Derbyshire in 1955 and played mainly in the Second XI, but made his first-class debut in a victory against Scotland in August 1955. He continued playin

Is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Worcestershire between 1959 and 196

Is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Worcestershire between 1959 and 1961. Sedgley's first two first-class games, in 1959, were against Cambridge and Oxford Universities respectively. In 1960 he appeared on 11 occasions, and ma