Gerald Brodribb

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dr. Arthur Gerald Norcott Brodribb (21 May 1915 – died 7 October 1999) was a cricket historian and archaeologist.

Born in St Leonards-on-Sea, Brodribb graduated from Oxford and 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".[1] 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)

[edit] Biographies

[edit] References


  This biographical article related to English cricket is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.