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    Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine, Kt, MBE (21 September 1901 – 1 July 1971) was a Trinidadian cricketer, lawyer and politician who served...
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    Larry Constantine, computer science pioneer, writer Learie Constantine, West Indian cricketer Michael Constantine, American actor Stavros Constantine, fictional...
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  • cricketer Learie Constantine also condemned the bus company. Constantine was then serving as High Commissioner for Trinidad and Tobago. Constantine wrote...
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  • increasingly political former cricketer Learie Constantine and others called for a black captain. Constantine himself had stood in for Jackie Grant in...
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    wearing the uniform. The West Indian cricketer Learie Constantine gave evidence on his behalf. In 1954, Constantine published a book titled Colour Bar (1954)...
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    to offer accommodation to a guest unless for just cause. In 1943, Learie Constantine, a black Trinidadian professional cricketer who had played for the...
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  • biggest races in the 1956 general election, West Indies cricketer Learie Constantine of the PNM defeated Radio Trinidad announcer Surujpat Mathura of the...
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  • for Trinidad between 1932 and 1949. He was the younger brother of Learie Constantine, who represented West Indies in Test matches; his father Lebrun and...
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    when the club enjoyed the services of Learie Constantine, the West Indian cricketer; when in 1969 Constantine became the first person of African descent...
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    criticised Learie Constantine's use of short-pitched bowling to a leg side field in a Test match in 1930; one such ball struck Andy Sandham, but Constantine only...
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  • 7th Baron Hawke respectively. Learie Constantine and Colin Cowdrey both received life peerages, becoming Baron Constantine and Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge...
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    and following an earthquake. The "Concrete Stand" was renamed the "Learie Constantine Stand" in recognition of that former West Indies cricketer. The first...
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    prominent cricketers who have represented Trinidad and Tobago includes: Learie Constantine Herman Griffith Clifford Roach Nelson Betancourt Jackie Grant Rolph...
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    Test Cricket Captain 1952/3 Succeeded by Vijay Hazare Preceded by Learie Constantine Nelson Cricket Club Professional 1938–1939 Succeeded by Bert Nutter...
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  • Wilton St Hill, the great batsman George Headley and the all-rounder Learie Constantine, but focuses on the importance of the game and its players to society...
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    from 100 other squares. Notable residents included the cricketer Learie Constantine, at no 101. Sir Alexander Carmichael Bruce, the second Assistant Commissioner...
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  • Slipless in Settle and in 2018 for Connie: The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine. Reviewing Slipless in Settle in Wisden, Gideon Haigh referred to...
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  • Learie Constantine, who played Test cricket in the 1920s and 1930s, was one of the first great West Indian players....
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    of the Race Relations Act of 1965." Popular Trinidadian cricketer Learie Constantine was awarded damages at the High Court after being turned away from...
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    was junior counsel for the West Indian cricketer Learie Constantine in his case in 1944, Constantine v Imperial Hotels, after he was turned away from...
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  • Ramnath Sawh, urologist Lancelot Layne Lauryn Williams Learie Constantine, Baron Constantine Lennon Benacia Lennox Mohammed Lennox Sharpe Lionel Belasco...
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    Academic offices Preceded by Sir Learie Constantine as Rector of the University of St Andrews Rector of the University of Dundee 1968–1974 Succeeded by...
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  • Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890) 1971 – Learie Constantine, Trinidadian-English cricketer, lawyer and politician (b. 1901) 1974...
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  • Team, and the emergence of such cricketing greats as Everton Weekes, Learie Constantine, and Sir Garfield Sobers. However talented these individual cricketers...
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  • cultural life. Mary Seacole was a heroine of the Crimean War, and Learie Constantine was an important cricketer. Today, Britain's black and mixed-race...
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  • Astle, Sydney Barnes, Allan Border, Chris Cairns, Michael Clarke, Sir Learie Constantine, Kapil Dev, Allan Donald, Bruce Dooland, Roy Gilchrist, Dennis Lillee...
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    Gaitskell called the speech "cowardly", and the West Indian cricketer Sir Learie Constantine condemned it. The leading Conservatives in the Shadow Cabinet were...
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  • 2022. "Denis Compton". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 26 October 2010. "Baron(Learie) Compton". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 13 June 2021. "Colin Cowdrey". Cricinfo...
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  • Case Queen Charlotte Linford Christie Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Lord Learie Constantine John Conteh William Cuffay   Ottobah Cuguano Craig David Des'ree Desmond...
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    stumped for 25. However, his runs came in less than two overs and Learie Constantine later rated this as one of Headley's best innings. In the second innings...
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