The world of Cricket and especially the cricket of Gloucestershire is a bad success of the continued success of the continued success after the death of Roger Gibbons at the age of 80 Gloucestershire CCC Heritage Trust.
The trust is a charity organization that devoted itself to the preservation of the history of the district and was founded in 2014. At the beginning, and later when the museum and the learning center were opened in the Nevil Road headquarters of the district in Bristol, Roger was one of the trustees.
In this capacity I came across Roger a few years ago, and in various e -mail exchanges he kept me up to date on the museum’s occasional publications. Roger himself was the author of you, and although there is no full length book in my collection that bears his name, his monographs have been some of the welcome additions in recent years.
I assume that it must be possible and even probably that Roger had help with design and was taken out of the brochures, but the fascinating content was in your heart. In any case, the monographs included examples of carefully researched and less well -known aspects of the cricket of Gloucestershire, all the better that Roger was also an excellent word song in addition to the acquisition of a thorough understanding of his topics.
He started in 2015 In the memoryA tribute to the cricket players of Gloucestershire who brought the ultimate victim for their country in the First World War. This was reprinted with three more in 2019. The monograph that remains my personal favorite concerned the hardly any credible story of a proposed India tour through a side of Gloucestershire in 1936/37. The tour that was never.
The other two 2019 titles were Delay in transitA report on the education and playing of a record of the West England XI, a page that played the summer of the war of 1944 and 1945, and and Dealing with a dead man. This latter title that I am confident about would never have seen the light of the day if it hadn’t been for Roger. It is the story of his discovery that the historians, archivists and the statisticians of the game had misfirmed a man for many years who made three anonymous appearances for Gloucestershire in the Victorian period.
And that was three years until 2022 when four more titles from Rogers Cottage industry appeared. Regarding CB Grace Was the first, a memoire of the youngest son of the legendary WG, Charles Butler Grace, who appeared four times in first class. George Pepall: Cricket player and compatriotLike dealing with a dead man, was a look at a man who occasionally played for Gloucestershire around the turn of the twentieth century and had an interesting background story.
The other two 2022 titles are fascinating insights into social and cricket history. Holidays at home: Gloucester Cricket Week 1943 the entertainment looked at the holiday season, which provides Gloucestershire in war, and Bristol Cricket Challenge Cup competition 1885-1892 Reconstructs the story of something that the Victorian Club game was ultimately not entirely ready to have a knockout cup.
Under the circumstances that I had hoped for, we would have seen another quartet of publications by Roger for three years, but unfortunately his death seems to put an end to this idea, unless there are titles in the course of the preparation. If I sincerely hope that you have progressed enough to enable your colleagues in the Heritage Trust, to end the projects and put it in pressure.
In addition, a historian Roger was also a collector, but I was told that, unlike some Cricket drivers, he was interested in much more than cricket. An accountant of a profession was clearly tribute from the fulsoms that have occurred in the past few days, an excellent society and a good raconte. I met him at an event by Stephen Chalke in Lansdowne Cricket Club last November. For me it was an enormously gratifying event that many people had met that I had only only corresponded to by e -mail. At some point Roger came up to me, apologized for the interruption, but said he wanted to imagine and said that we could undoubtedly talk later. Unfortunately we never did it and never now, but even in this shortest meeting he radiated bonhomy, good humor and knowledge. The associated photo of him, which signed some of his monographs Border books’ Exhibition spacePresent that captures that very well.
