William Henry "Dusty" Hare MBE (born 29 November 1952) is a former international England rugby union footballer, who played fullback.

Hare currently holds the world record for points scored in a first class rugby career with 7,337 points.

He was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire and attended the Magnus Grammar School (now Magnus Church of England School).

Rugby career[link]

Hare played for Nottingham R.F.C. before joining Leicester Tigers and playing for nearly 400 games for them.

He made his England debut 16 March 1974 in a match against Wales, and played his final game ten years later on, having gained 25 caps. He toured with the British Lions to New Zealand in 1983.

He retired from club rugby after the 1989 cup final loss to Bath, and is now the chief scout at Northampton Saints. Previous to this job, Hare was a farmer in South Clifton, Nottinghamshire and had been since a young man carrying on the family business. However, Hare sold the farm in 2001 to take a full time job at Leicester Tigers working for the academy and latterly as head scout.

In January 2010 it was announced that he was to join Northampton Saints.

Cricket career[link]

Hare was also a good cricketer, and he played ten first-class and seven List A matches for Nottinghamshire between 1971 and 1977. He played regularly for the Nottinghamshire Second XI and Under-25s between 1969 and 1978.

See also[link]

• List of top English points scorers and try scorers

References[link]

External links[link]

• Photos, biography & statistics at Sporting-Heroes.net
• Rugby Speakers
• Cricinfo stats
• BBC sport
• Hare's cricket record at CricketArchive

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Thomas William Varndell

Date of birth	(1985-09-16) 16 September 1985 (age 26)
Place of birth	Ashford, England
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	100 kg (15 st 10 lb) [1]
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Wing
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
1994–2000	Chinnor Henley rugby club
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2004–2009 2006 2009–	Leicester Tigers → Bedford Blues (loan) London Wasps	52 2 23	(190) (10) (75)
correct as of 23rd January 2007.
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2006– 2005– 2005–	England Saxons England England Sevens	4	(15)
correct as of 23rd Jan 2007.

Tom Varndell (born 16 September 1985 in Ashford, Kent) is an English rugby union footballer who plays on the wing for London Wasps, England and England Sevens. He claims to have been clocked at 10.8 seconds for the 100 metres in his socks on grass.^[2] If correct, this suggests that Varndell could run much faster over 100 metres, rendering him as arguably one of the fastest men in World Rugby.

Varndell has played for Aviva Premiership side London Wasps since the start of the 2009/10 season.

Early career[link]

Varndell began playing rugby aged 8 at Chinnor rugby club in Oxfordshire^[3] before moving to Henley Hawks where he stayed until he was 15 when he was invited by Dusty Hare, the former England full back, who was Leicester's Chief Scout, to train with them.^[4] He spent two years at the Tigers' den but left to take up a scholarship at Colston's Collegiate School in Bristol.

2004–05[link]

Varndell returned to the Tigers in 2004, and made a quick impact in the Premiership. In his second appearance with the Tigers senior side, he recorded the fastest hat trick of tries in Premiership history, doing so in a 13-minute span against Worcester. He finished the 2005-06 Guinness Premiership regular season, top of the try list with 14.

2005–06[link]

Also in 2005, Varndell made his debut for both national teams within one week. On 26 November, he scored a try against Manu Samoa at Twickenham in his first full 15-man international. Then, on 1 and 2 December, he made his England Sevens debut in the Dubai Sevens, the first tournament in the 2005–06 World Sevens Series. Varndell was the tournament's leading try scorer as England claimed the title.

In 2006, Varndell was chosen in the England Saxons team for the 6 Nations, but after impressive displays for both Leicester Tigers and England in the Rugby Sevens at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, he was awarded with a two starting places on the first team, development tour to Australia. For the Elite players squad in the 2006/07 England Squad he was subsequently dropped and demoted back to the England Saxons side with new Leicester team mate, Jordan Crane.

In September 2006, Varndell played for Leicester's feeder club, Bedford Blues, and scored a try on his debut against Exeter Chiefs.

2007–08[link]

The start of the 2007/08 season saw Varndell back on the wing in the starting 15 for Leicester's opening games in the Premiership. He scored 18 tries for Leicester during the 32 games he played in the 2007/08 season

In late 2007 his girlfriend Claire gave birth to a son called Taio Varndell.

Start of 2008 saw Varndell selected for the England Saxons squad. He started the first game against the Ireland A team, at Welford Road and scored.

He was selected in the England Saxons side that defeated Ireland A at Welford Road on 1 February 2008, bagging a brace in his first international since the tour to Australia 18 months prior.^[5][6] Saxons coach Steve Bates was keen for him to put pressure on first team selection.^[7]

Varndell was select for the 2008 summer tour to New Zealand and started in the 2nd test against New Zealand in Christchurch, which England lost 44–12. Varndell did, however, score a try for his team.

He was named as a member of Martin Johnson's first England elite player squad ready for selection for the 2008/09 international season but was dropped before the start of the 2009 Six Nations.

He has contimued to play with success for the England IRB sevens team, and was a try-scoring member of the England Saxons team in this years (2009) Churchill Cup.

2009–10[link]

Varndell moved to London Wasps and had an instant impact, scoring 4 tries in his first two matches. His defensive ability is still questioned as tries have slipped past him whilst playing for Wasps. So far in his London Wasps career he has made: 42 starts, 4 replacement appearances, Scoring: 26 tries, with a total of 130 points for London Wasps.

References[link]

External links[link]

• England Rugby profile
• Wasps profile
• Leicester Tigers profile

Kieron Williamson (born 4 August 2002^[1]) is a watercolour artist from Holt, Norfolk in England. His paintings and ability by the age of six have caused considerable interest in the UK media and are notable for his advanced use of perspective and shading.^[2]

He has been described as a prodigy,^[3] and at his second exhibition in 2009, his paintings sold out in 14 minutes, raising a total of £18,200 for 16 paintings.^[4] A subsequent exhibition in Holt in July 2010 saw his paintings all sold within 30 minutes, at a total value of £150,000.^[5]

The following week, on Friday, 6 August 2010, Williamson revealed on the BBC Norfolk website some of his latest paintings that would be exhibited in 2011.^[6]

At the beginning of November 2010 the family revealed to the Eastern Daily Press that they might re-locate to Cornwall to further Kieron's painting,^[7] but in the event the family bought a new home at Ludham, east of Norwich in Kieron's name, with the proceeds of his art sales. In November 2011, a further 33 paintings were sold in 10 minutes for £100,000, including an impression of Istanbuls' Suleymaniye Mosque for £15,595.^[8]

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Peter Stanford (4 August 2010). "Is Kieron Britain’s most exciting painter?". The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/7925001/Is-Kieron-Britains-most-exciting-painter.html. 

• David Keller (9 August 2010). "Kieron Williamson: Media circus surrounds 'Mini Monet'". BBC Norfolk. http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/norfolk/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8892000/8892912.stm. 

External links[link]

• Kieron Williamson Official Site

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Geoffrey David Hand KBE GCL (11 May 1918- 6 April 2006) was the first Anglican Archbishop of Papua New Guinea.

Childhood and education[link]

Gresham's

Hand was born in 1918 at Clermont, Queensland, Australia, where his English father, the Reverend William Thomas Hand, was the Rector of Clermont.^[1] He had two older brothers, Peter and Eustace, both of whom also became priests.^[1] When he was four, the family returned to England, his father taking up a country parish in Tatterford, Norfolk. Hand grew up there and was educated at Gresham's School, Holt (where he was an organ scholar) from 1932 to 1937) and then at Oriel College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1941, when he received a degree in history before training for ordination at Ripon Theological College, Cuddesdon (1941–1942).^[1]

Career[link]

Ordained a deacon in 1942, Hand became a curate at Heckmondwike in Yorkshire in the north of England and was ordained a priest in 1943. He stayed at Heckmondwike until 1946, when he was inspired to go out to Papua New Guinea by the life and death of the Reverend Vivian Redlich, a missionary killed there during World War II.

Hand arrived in Papua New Guinea in 1946^[2] and spent sixty of his eighty-seven years there.^[1] When he became a bishop in 1950, he was the youngest bishop in the Anglican communion, aged only thirty-two.^[2]

An eccentric, Hand's usual outfit was a loose shirt, shorts, "sensible shoes" and a wooden cross.^[1] On meeting an Australian journalist in 1972, Hand told him that "The secret of life in the tropics is Johnson's Baby Powder, lots of it."^[1] He could, though, dress more grandly. During a visit, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh took him for a member of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Hand said he was "Church of England", but Philip asked: "Are you sure?"^[1]

Hand was one of the very few bishops of the modern world who had walked through equatorial jungle and climbed mountains to find people who had never before had contact with the outside world. In pursuit of publicity to gain support for his diocese, he employed a press officer, Susan Young, who smoked cheroots and flew a plane.^[1]

Independence[link]

When Papua New Guinea gained its independence from Australia in September 1975, Hand was the first European to apply for citizenship.^[1] He received honours as varied as a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth, the highest rank (Grand Companion) in Papua New Guinea's Order of the Logohu and the title of Chief of the Orokaiva tribe.^[2]

Hand ended his time as archbishop in 1983 at the retirement age of sixty-five^[2] and was succeeded by George Ambo.^[3] He then spent two years as the parish priest of his childhood village of Tatterford in Norfolk, where he was still remembered. However, he missed Papua New Guinea and returned, settling in Port Moresby^[2] where he wrote his memoirs (and a newspaper column) and headed the local censorship board. He never married,^[2] remaining a celibate Anglo-Catholic missionary like Trevor Huddleston, in the tradition of the Oxford Movement.^[1] When he died in Port Moresby in 2006, he was buried at the Cathedral of the Resurrection, Popondetta. His funeral was delayed, as his coffin was found to be too big for his grave.^[1]

Ministry positions[link]

Papua New Guinea

• Ordained deacon 1942
• Curate at Heckmondwike in Yorkshire 1942-1946
• Priest 1943
• Missioner, Diocese of New Guinea 1946-1950
• Priest-in-charge, Sefoa 1947-1948
• Priest-in-charge, Sangara 1948-1950
• Archdeacon of North New Guinea 1950-1965
• Bishop Coadjutor of New Guinea 1950-1963
• Bishop of New Guinea 1963-1975
• Bishop of Papua New Guinea 1975-1977
• Bishop of Port Moresby 1977-1983
• Archbishop of Papua New Guinea 1977-1983
• Priest-in-charge, East with West Rudham, Houghton next Harpley, Syderstone, Tatterford and Tattersett 1983-1985

Honours[link]

The Order of the Logohu

• Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1975^[2]
• Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1984^[2]
• Grand Companion of the Order of the Logohu, 2005^[2]
• Chief of the Orokaiva tribe of Oro Province

Autobiography[link]

• Modawa: Papua New Guinea and Me 1946-2002, by Archbishop David Hand (Salpress, Port Moresby, 2002)

Notes[link]

Anglicanism portal

External links[link]

• Obituary in 'The Guardian' newspaper of London
• Obituary at Church of Papua New Guinea web site
• The Niugini Liturgy prepared and published by David Hand