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Alasdair Maclay
Alasdair Worsfold Maclay (born 15 October 1973) is an English former first-class cricketer. Maclay was born at Salisbury in October 1973. He was educated at Winchester College, before going up to St Edmund Hall, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University from 1993–96, making twelve appearances. Playing as a right-arm medium-fast bowler, he took 11 wickets at an average of 78.81 and best figures of 3 for 30. After graduating from Oxford, he spent eighteen years working in the financial services industry in London and South Africa, before working for The Rhodes Trust as the director of strategy and development where his focus was on expanding the Rhodes Scholarship The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ... to new geogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salisbury
Salisbury ( ) is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne. The city is approximately from Southampton and from Bath. Salisbury is in the southeast of Wiltshire, near the edge of Salisbury Plain. Salisbury Cathedral was formerly north of the city at Old Sarum. The cathedral was relocated and a settlement grew up around it, which received a city charter in 1227 as . This continued to be its official name until 2009, when Salisbury City Council was established. Salisbury railway station is an interchange between the West of England Main Line and the Wessex Main Line. Stonehenge is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is northwest of Salisbury. Name The name ''Salisbury'', which is first recorded around the year 900 as ''Searoburg'' ( dative ''Searobyrig''), is a partial translation of the Roman Celtic name ''Sorbiodūnum''. The Brittonic suffix ''-dūnon'', meaning "fortress" (in reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
