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Graham Stokes (other)
Graham Stokes may refer to: * Graham Stokes (music executive) (born 1958), British music executive and musician * Graham Stokes (cricketer) Graham Stokes (22 March 1858 – 19 December 1921) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club in the early 1880s.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition ... (1858–1921), English cricketer * James Graham Phelps Stokes (1872–1960), known as Graham, American millionaire socialist writer, political activist, and philanthropist {{hndis, Stokes, Graham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Stokes (music Executive)
Graham Barry Stokes, 9 February 1958, Birmingham, West Midlands, England) is a British music executive and musician. He grew up in Leigh Park, Hampshire, attending Wakeford Comprehensive (now known as Havant Academy). He spent his early life playing in various bands as a guitarist, before landing a job at Arista Records as a post boy in 1979. Career Early career He was soon recruited by the Radio and Television Promotions Department at Arista Records and worked with bands such as The Beat and Secret Affair. He then spent the next 10 years working at some of London's biggest record labels including London Records, Island Records and MCA Records where he helped to guide the careers of Bananarama, Bobby Brown, Communards, Fine Young Cannibals, Kim Wilde and Run DMC. Recording career In 1989 he embarked on a recording career under the name Graham Stokes, then under the pseudonym Graystoke and finally as lead guitarist with the band Broken Wings. Broken Wings released their epo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Stokes (cricketer)
Graham Stokes (22 March 1858 – 19 December 1921) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club in the early 1880s.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 506–507.Available onlineat the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 8 August 2022.) Stokes was born at Greenwich in Kent, the son of Henry Graham Stokes, Proctor to the Admiralty and solicitor, and his wife Elizabeth Sewell. He made his first-class debut for Kent against Surrey in 1880. He made three further first-class appearances in 1851, against Derbyshire, Lancashire, and Surrey. Stokes scored 39 runs in his four matches, with a top score of 27. Outside of cricket he worked as a solicitor. He died at Blackheath, in London on 19 December 1921. His brothers Frederick and Lennard both played international rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |