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Legard
Legard may refer to: * Alfred Legard (1878–1939), English soldier and cricketer * Antony Legard (1912–2004), English cricketer * Eddie Legard (born 1935), English cricketer * Sir John Legard, 1st Baronet (1631–1678), English politician *Jonathan Legard Jonathan Legard (born 7 July 1961 in Cardiff, Wales), is a sports journalist, best known as the lead commentator for the BBC's Formula One TV coverage in 2009 and 2010. Legard has been the BBC's motor racing and football correspondent as well a ... (born 1961), English broadcaster * Percy Legard (1906–1980), English soldier and Olympic sportsman See also: * Legard Baronets {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Legard
Percy Legard (17 June 1906 – 16 February 1980) was a British Army officer and sportsman. Legard competed as an Olympian in both Summer and Winter disciplines. He was, respectively, a modern pentathlete and a Nordic combined skier. He also took part in the demonstration of the winter pentathlon as an Olympic sport. In addition, he took part in the inaugural meeting of the Badminton Horse Trials. He was a regular officer in the British Army and during the Second World War he served in the Commandos, where he was the initial Commanding Officer of No.4 Commando. Early life Legard was born in 1906 in Saltash in Cornwall but spent most of his childhood in Sweden, where he developed his un-English expertise in skiing and other Nordic sports. He came from a junior branch of the long-established family of Yorkshire gentry. The family had been loyal servants of the Crown since the Civil War and his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all officers, either of the British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Legard, 1st Baronet
Sir John Legard, 1st Baronet (1631 – 1 July 1678), of Ganton in Yorkshire, was an English landowner and Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of John Legard of Ganton (b. 1606) and was made a baronet in 1660 by King Charles II for his family's support for the Royalist cause. He was elected to Parliament in 1660 as member for Scarborough, though he only represented the borough for a few months. In December of the same year he was created a baronet. Legard died in 1678. In 1655 he had married Grace Darcy (d. 1658), daughter of The Earl of Holderness. They had one child Grace, who married John Hill of Thornton. After the death of his first wife he remarried, on 12 August 1658, his second wife being Frances Widdrington, daughter of Sir Thomas Widdrington, a former Speaker of the House of Commons Speaker of the House of Commons is a political leadership position found in countries that have a House of Commons, where the membership of the body elects a speaker to lead its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Legard
Jonathan Legard (born 7 July 1961 in Cardiff, Wales), is a sports journalist, best known as the lead commentator for the BBC's Formula One TV coverage in 2009 and 2010. Legard has been the BBC's motor racing and football correspondent as well as commentating regularly on Formula One races for BBC Radio 5 Live from 1997 to 2004. On 24 November 2008, he was confirmed as the lead commentator for the BBC's Formula One coverage in 2009. On 11 January 2011, the BBC announced changes in the F1 commentary team. On Twitter, Legard confirmed to British F1 fans that he would not be commentating on BBC F1 coverage during the forthcoming season. On 19 January 2011 Legard became a sports presenter on BBC Radio 4's Today programme. In February 2011 Legard began commentating on football in BBC's The Football League Show. He has served as the Olympic Broadcasting Services English-language commentator for volleyball since the 2012 Summer Olympics. Career *1987–1990: BBC Radio Merseyside *19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Legard
Edwin "Eddie" Legard (23 August 1935 – 29 January 2020) was an English cricketer who played in 20 first-class cricket matches for Warwickshire between 1962 and 1968. He was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire. Legard was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper. He played for Yorkshire's second eleven in both the Minor Counties and Second Eleven Championship competitions between 1954 and 1959, winning the Minor Counties Championship in both 1957 and 1958. But he was unable to dislodge his contemporary Jimmy Binks from the Yorkshire first team, and Binks' remarkable immunity from injury and from being rested meant there were no opportunities whatsoever, so from 1960, Legard started qualifying for Warwickshire. From 1961, however, the former Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Legard
Major Antony Ronald Legard (17 January 1912 – 22 August 2004), nicknamed Loopy, was an Indian-born English first-class cricketer who played 36 matches, mostly for Oxford University, in the 1930s. He also played twice for Free Foresters and had one match each for Worcestershire, the Europeans in India and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Legard made his first-class debut for Oxford against Leicestershire at The University Parks in May 1932; he took four wickets, including that of Alan Shipman in both innings. He played consistently that season, including against the South Americans (on their only first-class tour) when he scored 38, the only time he ever passed 20. Later in the year he was selected for the Varsity Match against Cambridge University at Lord's, where he took six wickets in a drawn match. Legard played for much of the 1933 season, but was not selected for the Varsity Match, and did not appear at all in 1934. Obituary. ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' 2005. However ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Legard
Colonel Alfred Digby Legard, CBE (19 June 1878 – 15 August 1939) was an English Army officer and amateur first-class cricketer, who appeared in two matches for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), and another four for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1904 and 1910. Born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, Legard was a right-handed batsman, who scored 27 first-class runs at 9.71 with a best of 27. A right-arm slow bowler, he bowled eleven overs without success at a cost of 33 runs. Legard was commissioned a second lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 18 May 1898, and promoted to lieutenant on 22 October 1899. He served with the 1st Battalion of his regiment in the Second Boer War 1899–1902, where he was present at the Battle of Talana Hill and the Defence of Ladysmith in early 1900, before he took part in operations in Natal March–June 1900, and operations in Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July–November 1900. He received the Queen's South Africa Medal with four clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
