Gerald Brodribb
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Dr. Arthur Gerald Norcott Brodribb (born St Leonards-on-Sea, 21 May 1915 – died 7 October 1999) was a cricket historian and archaeologist.
After graduating from Oxford Brodribb became a schoolmaster. From 1956 to 1968, he ran a prep school in Sussex.
Brodribb was a descendent of the Victorian actor Sir Henry Irving and a founder member of the Cricket Society. His best known work in cricket is Next Man In which "took cricket's Laws, and re-examined them all with an eye to their quirks, oddities and exceptions". Among his other famous works are Hit for Six, a compendium of the big-hitters in cricket, and The Croucher, a biography of the early twentieth century cricketer Gilbert Jessop.
Later in his career, he took an interest in archaeology and was awarded a doctorate in 1985 for his thesis on Roman building materials. His 'Roman brick and tile' is an important work on the subject.
[edit] Major works on cricket
- English Game (anthology) (1948)
- Cricket in Fiction (1950)
- All Round the Wicket
- Next Man In (1952)
- The Book of Cricket Verse (1953)
- A Yankee Looks at Cricket
- Hit for Six (1960)
- The Art of Nicholas Felix
- Cricket at Hastings (1989)
- The Lost Art : A History of Under-arm Bowling (1997)
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[edit] References
- ^ Obituary in Wisden 2000 (accessed on April 9, 2006)
- Obituary by the Society of Antiquaries, London (accessed on April 9, 2006, now defunct)
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