- Richard Streeton
Richard Marsh Streeton (
4 November 1930 -30 June 2006 ) was an Englishsports journalist , concentrating oncricket .Streeton's father was a manager for
HMV and theBBC . Streeton was educated atKing's School, Canterbury , before leading a distinguished naval career. He worked on provincialnewspaper s inNuneaton ,Mansfield ,Nottingham andKettering , before joiningReuters in 1958.He remained at Reuters for over a decade, where his assignments included the
1964 Summer Olympics inTokyo and the1968 Summer Olympics inMexico City ; England cricket tours to Australia, New Zealand and the West Indies; and theMonte Carlo Rally .He joined "
The Times " in 1969, inLondon . He originally combined writing withsub-editing , but became a full-time writer from 1977. He wrote a biography of the cricketerPercy Fender in 1981, writing during a strike of print workers that closed "The Times" for almost a year. He became well-known as a cricket and rugby correspondent, but also coveredbadminton ,table tennis andcycling . He went on several winter tours with theEngland cricket team . He left "The Times" in January 1993 and retired toDevon .A resemblance to the actor
Jack Hawkins caused him to be given the nickname "Hawkins".Bibliography
* "PGH Fender: A Biography", Faber Books, 1981. ISBN 0-571-11635-3
External links
* [http://acscricket.com/Articles/4/4449.html ACS Obituary by Andrew Hignell]
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2265539,00.html "The Times" Obituary, 12 July 2006]
* [http://www.cricketwritersclub.com/obituaries.aspx Cricket Writers' Club Obituary]
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