Olympic Games
Overview page. Subjects: Sport and Leisure.
An ancient Greek festival with athletic, literary, and musical competitions held at Olympia every four years, traditionally from 776 bc until abolished by the Roman emperor Theodosius I in...
Brookes, William Penny (1809–1895), surgeon and campaigner for the revival of the Olympic games
in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
September 2004; p ublished online September 2004 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Sports and Outdoor Recreation; Surgery. 1167 words.
Brookes, William Penny (1809–1895), surgeon and campaigner for the revival of the Olympic games, was born on 13 August 1809 at 4 Wilmore Street, Much Wenlock, Shropshire, the first of the...
