Gerald Brodribb

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".ref|wisden 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.

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)

Biographies

* "Felix on the Bat"
* "The Croucher" (1974)
* "Maurice Tate"

References

* [http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228773.html Obituary in Wisden 2000] (accessed on April 9, 2006)
* [http://www.sal.org.uk/obituaries/Obituary%20archive/arthur-brodribb/view?searchterm=victorian Obituary by the Society of Antiquaries, London] (accessed on May 8, 2008)