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English cricket statistician. And historian

Henry Thomas Waghorn (11 April 1842 – 30 January 1930), was a cricket statistician and historian. He is: best known for his two classic researches into cricket's early history: The Dawn of Cricket and Cricket Scores, "Notes," etc. (1730 - 1773).

Waghorn was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. 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. 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.

References

  1. ^ "Wisden - Obituaries in 1930". 2 December 2005.


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