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Martin Chandler ; 8:55 AM GMT February 16 2025

The world of cricket and cricket of Gloucestershire, in particular the continued success of the Gloucestershire CCC Heritage Trust.

The Trust is a charity dedicated to the preservation of the county’s history and was established in 2014. There at first, and later when the Museum and the Learning Center opened at the Nevil Road headquarters in the county. Bristol, Roger was one of the trustees.

It was in this sense that I found Roger a few years ago, and in several emails he kept up to date with the timely publications of the museum. Roger himself was the author of The Best of them, and although in my collection there is no full book that bears his name, his monographs have been some of the most welcomed additions of the latter years.

I guess it should be possible and even probably Roger had a little assistance with the design and out of the leaflets, but in his heart it was the fascinating content. In each case, the monographs dealt with examples of diligent and lesser -known aspects of the Glucestershire cricket improved the fact that, in addition to acquiring a complete understanding of their topics, Roger was also an excellent word.

Started in 2015 with To the memoryA tribute to the cricketers of Gloucestershire who made the final sacrifice for their country in the Great War. That was reprinted in 2019 along with three more. The monograph that is still my personal favorite referred to the unbeatable story of a tour proposed by India on one side of Gloucestershire in 1936/37, The tour that was never.

The other two titles of 2019 were Delayed in transitAn account of the formation and record of the west of England XI, a side that he played through the war summers of 1944 and 1945, and Traction with a dead man. This last title, I am sure that I would never have seen the light of the day if it were not for Roger. It is the story of its discovery, which for many years the historians, archivists and statistics of the game had mistakenly identified a man who performed three anonymous performances for Gloucestershire in Victorian times.

And it was that, for three years until 2022, when four more titles appeared in the rural house industry in Roger. About CB Grace He was the first, a memory of the legendary WG’s youngest son, Charles Butler Grace, who appeared four times in the first class game. George Pepall: Cricleter and landscapeIt was, like the treatment with a dead man, a look at a man who played from time to time in Gloucestershire around the turn of the twentieth century that he had an interesting story.

The other two titles of 2022 are fascinating visits to social history and cricket. Home Holidays: Gloucester Cricket Week 1943 Looked at the entertainment of the holiday time available for the population of Gloucestershire in time of war and Bristol Cricket Challenge Cup Contest 1885-1892 Reconstructs the story of something that the Victorian club game ultimately was not ready enough, a cup eliminated.

In the circumstances he had hoped that, three more years, we would have seen another quartet of Roger publications, but, unfortunately, his passage would seem to have finished this idea unless there were titles in the course of the preparation. If there are honestly, I hope they are advanced enough to allow their colleagues to The Heritage Trust finish the projects and put them to print.

In addition to a Roger historian, he was also a collector, but they tell me that, unlike some Cricket tragic, he was much more interested in the cricket. A profession of profession that was clearly, of the fulminant taxes that have appeared in recent days, an excellent company and a good raconteur. I met it once, until last November, at an event organized by Stephen Chalke at the Lansdowne Cricket Club. For me it was an enormously pleasant event, to meet many people with whom I had only corresponded by email. At one point, Roger approached me, apologized for interrupting, but said he wanted to present -and said that we could certainly speak later. Unfortunately, we never did, and now we will never do it, but even in this brief meeting, Bonhomie, good humor and knowledge sold out. The photograph that accompanied him by signing some of his monographs Limit books’ Exhibition Hall, It captures very well.