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Alastair McCorquodale

1925 - 2009

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Alastair McCorquodale (5 December 1925 – 27 February 2009) was a British athlete and cricketer. His son is married to Princess Diana's sister, Lady Sarah Spencer. McCorquodale was educated at Harrow where he opened the bowling for the 1st XI in the 1948 Eton v Harrow match at Lord's. He represented Britain in Athletics at the 1948 Olympic Games in London. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alastair McCorquodale is the 2,724th most popular athlete (up from 2,786th in 2019), the 6,304th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 6,314th in 2019) and the 110th most popular British Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Alastair McCorquodale ranks 2,724 out of 6,025Before him are Estela Rodríguez, Dayron Robles, Olga Chernyavskaya, Alexander Melentyev, Selina Gasparin, and Kim Woo-jin. After him are Grigoriy Yegorov, Stephanie Graf, Philippe Omnès, Dong Hyun Kim, Constanța Burcică, and Voitto Hellsten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Alastair McCorquodale ranks 531Before him are Swami Rama, Philip Carey, Nat Hentoff, Ebrahim Alkazi, Keshav Dutt, and Nicholas Brathwaite. After him are Virginia Capers, Eddie Baily, Jerry Paris, Dickie Moore, Maryon Pittman Allen, and Dale Bumpers. Among people deceased in 2009, Alastair McCorquodale ranks 398Before him are Philip Carey, Horton Foote, Stanley Middleton, Stanislav Markelov, Vladimir Turchinsky, and Arnold Stang. After him are Stephen Gately, Valeri Broshin, Tohir Yoʻldosh, William Safire, Wendy Richard, and Noordin Mohammad Top.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alastair McCorquodale ranks 6,306 out of 8,785Before him are Ronnie Barker (1929), Antonia Bird (1951), Tomm Moore (1977), David Jones (1984), Steve Hewitt (1971), and Maxwell Caulfield (1959). After him are Hazel Court (1926), Sophie Wilson (1957), Angela Buxton (1934), Stanley Spencer (1891), Matilda Ziegler (1964), and Jamie Cullum (1979).

Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Alastair McCorquodale ranks 110Before him are June Foulds (1934), Nellie Halstead (1910), Mark Richardson (1972), Jayne Torvill (1957), Walter D'Hondt (1936), and Daley Thompson (1958). After him are Paula Radcliffe (1973), Sylvia Cheeseman (1929), Phil Brown (1962), Peter Radford (1939), Alan Pascoe (1947), and Dorothy Hyman (1941).