Henry Thomas Waghorn (11 April 1842 – 30 January 1930), was a cricket statistician and historian. Events 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. Year 1842 ( MDCCCXLII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Events 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries He is best known for his two classic researches into cricket's early history: The Dawn of Cricket and Cricket Scores: 1730 - 1773.
Waghorn was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. KENT (1400 AM) is a Radio station broadcasting a Adult Standards/MOR format He had a career in the Army and then obtained a post at the British Museum, where he was able to indulge his love of research into old newspapers and periodicals. The British Museum is a Museum of human history and culture in London. Painstakingly, he assembled a mass of information from cricket notices, including some previously undiscovered match scores, which he eventually published in his two books. He died in Walmer, Kent. Walmer is a town in the district of Dover, Kent in England: located on the coast the parish of Walmer is 6 miles (10 km north-east of Dover