Brodribb was a descendant of the Victorian actor Sir Henry Irving and a founder member of the Cricket Society. 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".[2] 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.
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 (1987) remains a key work on the subject. He took a particular interest in the Classis Britannica iron-working site at Beauport Park.[3] Although he never published anything on the subject, he was also involved in researching the Roman roads in the area, especially the road leading north from Beauport Park.[4] His use of dowsing to locate archaeological sites was not always well received in the archaeological community, a fact that was highlighted when archaeological television programme Time Team excavated at Beauport Park.[5]
Worksedit
Cricketedit
Champions of Cricket, etc. (1947)
The English Game (anthology) (1948)
Cricket in Fiction: A Bibliography (1950)
All Round the Wicket: A Miscellany of Facts and Fancies of First-Class Cricket (1951)
Next Man In: A Survey of Cricket Laws and Customs (1952)
The Book of Cricket Verse (1953)
A Yankee Looks at Cricket (1956)
Hit for Six (1960)
The Art of Nicholas Felix (1985)
Cricket at Hastings (1989)
The Lost Art: A History of Under-Arm Bowling (1997)
gerald, brodribb, arthur, gerald, norcott, brodribb, 1915, october, 1999, cricket, historian, archaeologist, contents, life, career, works, cricket, biographies, archaeology, referenceslife, career, editborn, leonards, brodribb, educated, eastbourne, college, . Arthur Gerald Norcott Brodribb 21 May 1915 7 October 1999 was a cricket historian and archaeologist Contents 1 Life and career 2 Works 2 1 Cricket 2 2 Biographies 2 3 Archaeology 3 ReferencesLife and career editBorn in St Leonards on Sea Brodribb was educated at Eastbourne College and read classics and English at University College Oxford where his tutor was C S Lewis He became a schoolmaster and from 1956 to 1968 he owned and ran Hydneye House a prep school in East Sussex 1 Brodribb was a descendant of the Victorian actor Sir Henry Irving and a founder member of the Cricket Society 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 2 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 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 1987 remains a key work on the subject He took a particular interest in the Classis Britannica iron working site at Beauport Park 3 Although he never published anything on the subject he was also involved in researching the Roman roads in the area especially the road leading north from Beauport Park 4 His use of dowsing to locate archaeological sites was not always well received in the archaeological community a fact that was highlighted when archaeological television programme Time Team excavated at Beauport Park 5 Works editCricket edit Champions of Cricket etc 1947 The English Game anthology 1948 Cricket in Fiction A Bibliography 1950 All Round the Wicket A Miscellany of Facts and Fancies of First Class Cricket 1951 Next Man In A Survey of Cricket Laws and Customs 1952 The Book of Cricket Verse 1953 A Yankee Looks at Cricket 1956 Hit for Six 1960 The Art of Nicholas Felix 1985 Cricket at Hastings 1989 The Lost Art A History of Under Arm Bowling 1997 Biographies edit Felix on the Bat 1962 The Croucher 1974 Maurice Tate 1976 Archaeology edit Roman Brick and Tile Stroud Alan Sutton 1987 ISBN 0 86299 363 6 Available on Google Books References edit Arthur Gerald Norcott Brodribb M A Ph D Society of Antiquaries of London Archived from the original on 13 June 2011 Retrieved 8 February 2018 Obituary in Wisden 2000 Cricinfo Retrieved 29 April 2006 The Classis Britannica Bath house at Beauport Park East Sussex 1988 Britannia Volume 19 p 217 Working papers Battle Museum Time Team All 4 Archived from the original on 3 March 2016 Retrieved 27 January 2013 nbsp nbsp This biographical article related to an English cricket person born in the 1910s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gerald Brodribb amp oldid 1213163677, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
