George Neville Weston W.G. Grace biographer. Three scrapbooks comprising cuttings, scorecards, original letters, typed transcriptions, statistics etc. compiled by Weston. One scrapbook relates to research carried out by Weston on matches played by W.G. Grace for Bedminster in 1880. The others comprise image cuttings and articles, one taken from issues of 'The Bystander' magazine dating 1904 to 1906, with cricket content covering Lord Hawke, George Hirst, C.B. Fry, David Denton, the 1905 Australians, Lord Dalmeny etc., the other containing similar cuttings from 'The Sphere' magazine of 1963 celebrating the centenary of the first publication of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. G/VG
Weston is renowned as being probably the greatest historian on the history of W.G. Grace, in particular his attention to the detail of minor matches in which Grace played throughout his career. In the forward to Weston's book 'W.G. Grace The Great Cricketer' published in 1973, Irving Rosenwater quotes A.A. Thompson saying Weston 'knows more about W.G. than any man alive', to which Rosenwater adds, 'or dead'
George Neville Weston W.G. Grace biographer. Three scrapbooks comprising cuttings, scorecards, original letters, typed transcriptions, statistics etc. compiled by Weston. One scrapbook relates to research carried out by Weston on matches played by W.G. Grace for Bedminster in 1880. The others comprise image cuttings and articles, one taken from issues of 'The Bystander' magazine dating 1904 to 1906, with cricket content covering Lord Hawke, George Hirst, C.B. Fry, David Denton, the 1905 Australians, Lord Dalmeny etc., the other containing similar cuttings from 'The Sphere' magazine of 1963 celebrating the centenary of the first publication of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. G/VG
Weston is renowned as being probably the greatest historian on the history of W.G. Grace, in particular his attention to the detail of minor matches in which Grace played throughout his career. In the forward to Weston's book 'W.G. Grace The Great Cricketer' published in 1973, Irving Rosenwater quotes A.A. Thompson saying Weston 'knows more about W.G. than any man alive', to which Rosenwater adds, 'or dead'
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