Snowise Neil G
Centre for Pharmaceutical Medicine Research, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College, London, UK.
J Med Biogr. 2025 Feb;33(1):61-65. doi: 10.1177/09677720241227420. Epub 2024 Mar 13.
Dr WG Grace was a general practitioner in Bristol, in the late nineteenth century, but is better remembered as 'the father of cricket'. He showed early promise as a skilled cricket player and was already playing for Gloucester County, by the age of fifteen. However, coming from a well-established medical family, his father wanted him to become a doctor. He trained in Bristol and after qualifying he set up his own practice in the same environs. By this time, he was a superb cricketer with a glittering county and England career, combined with his clinical duties. He has several memorials where he lived and practised in Bristol, which are described and illustrated in this review. These include commemorative plaques in the local church, and near his later residence in Clifton, as well as a large mural at a train station and another at a shopping centre. These are all tributes to one of the most famous sons of Bristol. He is also celebrated at Lord's Cricket Ground, the home of cricket, with eponymous memorial gates and a full-size statue inside the ground. A fine example of a doctor who also had other talents, these memorials reflect his widespread appeal and his long-lasting legacy.
WG·格雷斯医生在19世纪末是布里斯托尔的一名全科医生，但人们更记得他是“板球之父”。他早年就展现出了成为一名技艺娴熟的板球运动员的潜力，15岁时就已经代表格洛斯特郡队参赛了。然而，由于出身于一个久负盛名的医学世家，他的父亲希望他成为一名医生。他在布里斯托尔接受培训，毕业后在同一地区开设了自己的诊所。此时，他已是一名杰出的板球运动员，在郡队和英格兰队都有着辉煌的职业生涯，同时还履行着临床职责。在他曾生活和行医的布里斯托尔有几处纪念他的地方，本文对此进行了描述并配有图片。这些包括当地教堂以及他后来在克利夫顿的住所附近的纪念牌匾，还有火车站的一幅大型壁画以及购物中心的另一幅壁画。这些都是对布里斯托尔最著名的儿子之一的敬意。在板球运动的主场—— Lord's 板球场，也有以他命名的纪念门以及场内的一尊真人大小的雕像来纪念他。他是一位拥有其他才能的医生的典范，这些纪念物反映了他广泛的影响力和持久的遗产。
