Peter Wynne-Thomas

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Peter Wynne-Thomas (born Manchester, Lancashire 30 July 1934) is an English cricket archivist, writer, historian and statistician.

Peter Wynne-Thomas trained as an architectural consultant and was a respected researcher long before the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) started. In 1971, he won The Cricket Society's literary award with his Nottinghamshire Cricketers 1821-1914 and he has written numerous other books outside the ACS sphere. It is not generally known that Wynne-Thomas was chosen by Rowland Bowen to succeed him as editor of "The Cricket Quarterly". Bowen changed his thinking later, because he could not bear to think of anyone else in charge and the quarterly ceased to publish.

As well as his many publications, he has been a leading light in the ACS since it was founded in 1973. He has served as the association's first Treasurer during (1973-1974) and as Secretary (1974-2006). As Secretary he has taken the minutes for every committee and annual meeting, handled all the correspondence and has also contributed countless ideas to the ACS' development. In addition to a full quota of the planning, research, writing and typesetting, he has also checked, sub-edited and done the artwork for every publication in some degree or other. He won the Association's Statistician of the Year award in 1990 and has been awarded a honorary life membership.

He has served Nottinghamshire CCC as a general committee member, archivist and librarian. He ran the Sport-in-Print bookshop (opposite the Trent Bridge Inn) from December 1987 (and provided an office for the ACS) until its sale in March 2006. The Association purchased the premises as its headquarters in 1993.