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Arthur Alexander Thomson, MBE (born 7 April 1894 at Harrogate, Yorkshire; died 2 June 1968 near Lord's in London) was an English writer best known for his books on cricket, for which he used the byline "AA Thomson". The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British Order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. Events 529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in Jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Harrogate (or Harrogate Spa) is a large wealthy Spa town in North Yorkshire, England. Yorkshire is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Events 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Lord's Cricket Ground (generally known as Lord's) is a cricket London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries He wrote nearly 60 books in all, including plays, novels, verse, humour and travel books.

Before turning his hand to cricket writing, he was a drama critic, and a columnist for the Radio Times and for a Sunday newspaper, as well as having been a civil servant. For the US radio series see WHYY-FM. Radio Times is the BBC 's weekly Television and Radio programme See also Bureaucrat The term civil service has two distinct meanings Branch of governmental service in which individuals are hired on the basis [1]

As a cricket writer, he generally concentrated on bringing out the character of the players that he was writing about, and he made liberal use of humour. In these characteristics, and in that his cricket memories went back as far as the first decade of the 20th century, he might be compared with Neville Cardus, though Thomson was writing from a Yorkshire rather than a Lancashire perspective. Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus ( 2 April 1889 &ndash 28 February 1975) was an English writer and critic best known for his writing on music Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea He once said that cricket had given him more unalloyed pleasure over a longer period than anything else, and that pleasure was evident in his writing. Thomson saw cricket not only as the most pleasurable of pastimes but also quite like the Poet Laureate might see it -- an eternally vibrant display of colour, spirit, humour and conflict.

Tim Rice, in his introduction to the 1991 reissue of Pavilioned in Splendour, quoted John Arlott as having written: "Mr Thomson writes with a nostalgia, a wealth of anecdote, a warmth and heroic strain which, if we were not careful, would make Yorkshiremen of us all. Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November 1944 is an English Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award Leslie Thomas John Arlott ( February 25, 1914 &ndash December 14, 1991) was a freelance author whose main subjects were sport and wine a poet "

His autobiographical novel The Exquisite Burden (1935, reissued 1963), which his anonymous Wisden obituarist described as "brilliant", was based on his Yorkshire childhood. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (often referred to simply as Wisden or colloquially as "the Bible of Cricket" is by far the best

In 1966 he was awarded the MBE for services to sports writing. [2]

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  1. ^ Cricketers of My Times, Stanley Paul, 1967, p11. William Gilbert Grace ( 18 July 1848 – 23 October 1915) was an English Cricketer who by his extraordinary skills made George Herbert Hirst (born in Kirkheaton, Huddersfield, Yorkshire on 7 September 1871 - 10 May 1954) often Wilfred Rhodes (born October 29, 1877, North Moor Kirkheaton, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire; died July 8, 1973 Sir Leonard Hutton (born June 23, 1916 in Fulneck near Pudsey, Yorkshire, died September 6, 1990 in Cyril Washbrook ( 6 December 1914 in Barrow, Clitheroe, Lancashire – 27 April 1999 in Sale,
  2. ^ Ibid, inside back flap of book's jacket.

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