William Goldwin

William Goldwin

William Goldwin (born c.1682; died at Bristol 1747) was an English schoolteacher and vicar who left his mark on cricket by creating the sport's earliest known work of literature. Goldwin, whose name is sometimes spelt "Goldwyn", wrote a Latin poem of 95 lines on a rural cricket match. It was called "In Certamen Pilae" (On a Ball Game) and it was published in his "Musae Juveniles" in March 1706.

Little is known of Goldwin himself. He attended Eton and then graduated to King's College, Cambridge in 1700. He subsequently became a Master of Bristol Grammar School and was Vicar of St Nicholas' Church in Bristol until his death in 1747.


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