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- Frank MycroftFrank MycroftFrank Mycroft was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1893 and 1895.Mycroft was born in Shirland Toadhole Furnace, Derbyshire, the son of Matthew Mycroft, a farmer of , and his wife Eliza. Mycroft started playing for Derbyshire in the 1893 season before they were included in the...
(1873 - 1900), an English cricket er who played for Derbyshire between 1893 and 1895 - Thomas MycroftThomas MycroftThomas Mycroft was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire and MCC between 1877 and 1887.Mycroft was born in Brimington, Derbyshire, the son of George Mycroft and his second wife Elizabeth Lowcock. His father was an ironstone and coal miner who kept the Red Lion public house at Brimington....
(1848 - 1911), an English cricketer - William MycroftWilliam MycroftWilliam Mycroft was an English cricketer who played first class cricket for Derbyshire and MCC between 1873 and 1886. He was a left-arm fast bowler with a great deal of spin and a dangerous yorker that was often believed to be unfair - which may explain why he was not considered for the earliest...
(1841 - 1894), an English cricketer
- Mycroft & MoranMycroft & MoranMycroft & Moran was an imprint of Arkham House publishers and was created in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1945. The imprint was created to publish weird detective stories and the Solar Pons stories by August Derleth...
, an imprintImprintIn the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...
of Arkham HouseArkham HouseArkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...
publishers created in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1945
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- Mycroft HolmesMycroft HolmesMycroft Holmes is a fictional character in the stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. He is the elder brother of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes.- Profile :...
, Sherlock Holmes' brother in Arthur Conan Doyle's well-known detective novels- The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: a paper chaseThe Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: a paper chaseThe Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase is the title of a 2001 novel by Marcel Theroux. It was published in the United Kingdom in 2002 as The Paperchase....
- The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: a paper chase
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- Ian GilliesIan GilliesIan Gillies , known to many simply as Mycroft from BBC Radio 4's Brain of Britain, was an accomplished quiz player and question setter in the United Kingdom...
, late question setter and arbiter of the BBC Radio 4 quiz series Brain of Britain - Mycroft Holmes (computer), a self-aware computer in Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
- The Mycroft projectMycroft projectThe Mycroft project provides a collection of search plugins for Mozilla-based web browsers. The open source project is hosted on Mozdev.org and has been in existence since 2000...
, a collection of search plugins for web browsers - Mycroft Next, a character from Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series of books