Pub Quiz thread

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Edward Gilbert?
That's him. A sad story really - a fast bowler for the Queensland State team back in the 30s, he was generally recognised as the fastest in Australia, especially when Don Bradman gave him that label after facing five balls and being bowled for a duck. One of the 'Stolen Generation' of Aboriginal children, he was removed from his family at the age of 3 and sent to live & work in an Aboriginal settlement north of Brisbane. Leaving such settlements for any reason or any length of time required written permission under the Protection of Aboriginals Act of 1897 - and Australia's somewhat racist policies of the day meant that he wasn't allowed inside a hotel - so he had to pack his own tent and pitch it on the practice ground wherever he was playing. Man's inhumanity and all that...

Over to you.