R. C. Robertson-Glasgow
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| Full name | Raymond Charles Robertson-Glasgow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
15 July 1901 Murrayfield, Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
4 March 1965 (aged 63) Buckhold, Berkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1920–1935 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1927–1933 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1920–1923 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricketArchive, 16 December 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Raymond Charles 'Crusoe' Robertson-Glasgow (born 15 July 1901 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh, Scotland; died 4 March 1965 at Buckhold, Berkshire, England) was a Scottish cricketer and cricket writer.
Convivial, popular and humorous, Robertson-Glasgow was a right-arm fast-medium bowler who played for Oxford University and Somerset. During his career, which lasted from 1920 to 1937, he took 464 wickets at 25.77 in first-class cricket, with best innings figures of 9-38.
He subsequently won acclaim for his writing, in which his strong sense of humour shone through.[1] In 1933 he became cricket correspondent for the Morning Post. He later wrote for the Daily Telegraph, The Observer and the Sunday Times, and was the author of many books, including:[2]
- Cricket Prints: Some Batsmen and Bowlers (1920-1940) (Werner Laurie, 1948).
- More Cricket Prints - Some Batsmen and Bowlers (1920-1945) (1948)
- 46 Not Out - an autobiography (1948)
- Rain Stopped Play (1948)
- The Brighter Side of Cricket (Arthur Barker, 1950).
- All In The Game (1952)
- How To Become A Test Cricketer (1962)
- Crusoe on cricket: The cricket writings of R.C. Robertson-Glasgow (1966)
He also wrote the following non-cricket books:
- I was Himmler's Aunt (1940)
- Country Talk: A Miscellany (1964)
He retired from regular cricket writing in 1953. He was Chairman of the Cricket Writers' Club in 1959.[3]
His nickname of "Crusoe" came, according to Robertson-Glasgow himself, from the Essex batsman Charlie McGahey. When his captain asked McGahey how he had been dismissed, he replied: "I was bowled by an old ----- I thought was dead two thousand years ago, called Robinson Crusoe."[4]
He committed suicide during a snowstorm whilst in the grip of melancholic depression.
Notes
- ↑ Christopher Hollis, Oxford in the Twenties (1976)
- ↑ Robertson Glasgow R C - new and used books
- ↑ Cricket Writers' Club Honours Board. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
- ↑ RC Robertson-Glasgow, 46 Not Out, Hollis & Carter (1948), p.108.