George Bent Buckley (born in Yorkshire c. Yorkshire is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in Great Britain. 1885; died 26 April 1962, aged 77) was a celebrated cricket historian and an authority on the early days of the game. Events 1467 - The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy. Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries
A surgeon by profession, he won the Military Cross in 1916 for working under fire when he was serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War. Surgery (from the χειρουργική cheirourgikē, via chirurgiae meaning "hand work" is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental The Military Cross ( MC) is the third level Military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993 other ranks of the British Army and formerly also to The Royal Army Medical Corps ( RAMC) is a specialist Corps in the British Army which provides Medical services to all British Army World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All 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. Weston-super-Mare is a Seaside resort town and Civil parish in North Somerset, England.
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 of Rowland Bowen in 1960 [1]. Leslie Thomas John Arlott ( February 25, 1914 &ndash December 14, 1991) was a freelance author whose main subjects were sport and wine a poet Major Rowland Francis Bowen (born 27 February 1916; died 4 September 1978 at Buckfastleigh, Devon) was a noted Cricket It is probable that even more notes by Mr Buckley still exist unpublished.
References
- ^ Barclay's World of Cricket - 2nd Edition, 1980, Collins Publishers, ISBN 0-00-216349-7, p575.
External sources
Further reading
- 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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