Cricketer
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| A sport that can be a gentleman's hobby, or a stepping stone to a further political career. |
More likely to be privately educated than peers in the House of Lords
A 2019 British report[1] found that men’s cricket in England was skewed towards those who attended private schools. The national team at the time, with a 43% fee-paying make-up, made the top 10 professions with the highest independent school attendance. The 82% make-up of the England side puts it comfortably at the top, looming over High Court judges and the House of Lords, and peering down upon diplomats and the Armed Forces.
Examples
| Page name | Description |
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| Abe Bailey | South African diamond and gold tycoon, politician, financier and cricketer. |
| John Booth | Stern critic of disgraced peer Lord Mandelson |
| Imran Khan | ex-Pakistani Prime Minister |
| Alfred Lyttelton | Politician member of the Milner Group/Society of the Elect |
| Victor Rothschild | "In so many aspects of spying that he seemed like a super-agent, sabotaging every Western intelligence initiative for 20 years after the war" |
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