Jack Hobbs
Cricket Player
Professional cricket player for nearly thirty years, considered one of the greatest to ever play the game.
He was an errand boy before getting help from his father and becoming a college servant.
He inherited a love of cricket from his father, and spent most of his childhood playing it.
He married Ada Ellen Gates in September of 1906. He had four children: Leonard, Ivor, Vera and Jack Jr.
He and Edmund Hillary are among only about a dozen sports people that have been knighted.