CB FRY had so many claims to fame that it’s impossible to squeeze them all into one paragraph. He captained England at football and cricket in between playing rugby for the Barbarians and equalling the world record for the long-jump.
He played in the FA Cup at 16, captained Oxford University at football, athletics and cricket. He would have won a rugby Blue but for an untimely injury, excelled at boxing, golf, swimming, tennis, rowing, skating, throwing the javelin and putting the shot.
Not for nothing, therefore, was he offered the vacant throne as the new King of Albania. A brillian...