Dr. Arthur Gerald Norcott Brodribb (21 May 1915 – died 7 October 1999) was a cricket historian and archaeologist. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Events 878 - Syracuse Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 3761 BC - The epoch (origin of the modern Hebrew calendar ( Proleptic Julian calendar) Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos
Born in St Leonards-on-Sea, Brodribb graduated from Oxford and became a schoolmaster. St Leonards-on-Sea (or for short St Leonards is part of Hastings, East Sussex, England, lying immediately to the west of the centre The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the From 1956 to 1968, he ran a prep school in Sussex. Sussex is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.
Brodribb was a descendent of the Victorian actor Sir Henry Irving and a founder member of the Cricket Society. Sir Henry Irving ( February 6 1838 &ndash October 13 1905) born John Henry Brodribb was an English stage actor in the Victorian era The Cricket Society is an organisation that was originally founded as the Society of Cricket Statisticians at Great Scotland Yard London in 1945 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". 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. Gilbert Laird Jessop ( May 19, 1874, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire – May 11, 1955, Fordington, Dorset
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
References
- ^ Obituary in Wisden 2000 (accessed on April 9, 2006)
- Obituary by the Society of Antiquaries, London (accessed on May 8, 2008)