- GB Buckley
George Bent Buckley (born in
Yorkshire c.1885; died26 April 1962, aged 77) was a celebratedcricket historian and an authority on the early days of the game.A surgeon by profession, he won the
Military Cross in 1916 for working under fire when he was serving with theRoyal Army Medical Corps in theFirst World War . After he retired, he devoted his time to researching early cricket history and travelled all over England to visit local libraries. He collected a mass of cricket historiana from old newspapers and dutifully noted every reference he could find relating to 18th century cricket. His researches were consolidated in his two classic books: "Fresh Light on Eighteenth Century Cricket" (1935) and "Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket" (1937).He moved to
Weston-super-Mare in 1938 and lived in a pleasant Victorian house just a stone's throw from the local cricket ground.John Arlott states in the 1980 version of "Barclay's World of Cricket" that Mr Buckley's researches were continued in volumes of photo-reproduced typescript and manuscript, produced under the aegis ofRowland Bowen in 1960 ["Barclay's World of Cricket - 2nd Edition", 1980, Collins Publishers, ISBN 0-00-216349-7, p575.] . It is probable that even more notes by Mr Buckley still exist unpublished.References
External sources
* [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/234504.html Obituary from 1963 edition of "Wisden"]
Further reading
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G B Buckley , "Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket", Cotterell, 1935
*G B Buckley , "Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket", Cotterell, 1937
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