Famous Cricketers No 60 - Ernest Tyldesley

Acknowledgments The compiler particularly wishes to thank Mr.Donald F.Dean, nephew of the late Ernest Tyldesley, for his kindly assistance in providing history and reminiscence of his uncle. Thanks are also due to the late Mr.E.W.Swanton who furnished his tribute to a player he greatly admired only a matter of weeks before his death at the age of 92. For his assistance in many ways, not least in providing access to his extensive cricket library, gratitude is expressed most wholeheartedly to A.C.S. member Don Ambrose. Again acknowledgement is due to Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack for providing the initial match detail and to The Manchester Guardian (as it then was) for much contemporary match description, most of it from the pen of the late Sir Neville Cardus. The editorial and technical assistance of Kit Bartlett and Pete Griffiths of the A.C.S. is also recognised. Other members who have assisted in various ways include Philip Bailey, Malcolm Lorimer, Brian Heald, Peter Wynne-Thomas, David Baggett, Andrew Hignell, Rob Brooke, Les Hatton, Tony Woodhouse and, in Australia, Ray Webster. Thanks are due to them all as well as to the late W.H.L.Lister and David Howgate. In addition gratitude must be expressed to a number of scorers, statisticians, librarians and curators at cricket grounds around the country, notably Barry Watkins at Old Trafford, Stephen Green and Glenys Williams at Lord’s, Bert Avery at Bristol, David Robertson and the late Chris Taylor at Canterbury, Michael Hill at Taunton, Simon Porter at Oxford and Mike Fatkin at Cardiff. Finally thanks are due to the staffs at Crosby Library, Huyton Library, Manchester Library and the Colindale Newspaper Library, as well as those at the County Record Offices for Essex (Chelmsford), Leicestershire (Wigston), Hampshire (Winchester) and West Sussex (Lewes) and to anyone else who may inadvertently have been omitted from the foregoing. 5