Lives in Cricket No 19 - Frank Sugg

Acknowledgements I am most grateful to Lorna Brown, Frank Sugg’s granddaughter, for information she has been able to provide about Frank and for sight of a scrapbook kept by Frank, mainly of newspaper photographs and cuttings (not relating just to himself). I am also grateful to Timothy Sugg, Walter Sugg’s great-grandson, and to his sister Sally Ann Barrass and cousin Andrew Rodker, for recollections of Frank Sugg from their side of the family, and to Timothy for documents relating to the final years of Frank Sugg’s sports business. Lorna and Timothy both read drafts of my manuscript and are content with the way I have treated those details of Frank Sugg’s life about which there has to be continuing uncertainty. But any errors or misinterpretations are entirely my responsibility. I am grateful to Malcolm Lorimer for copies of newspaper cuttings about Frank Sugg and to the late Don Ambrose for the loan of copies of Frank Sugg’s Pocket Cricket Annual . A number of persons have provided information about Frank’s activities in sports other than cricket and I have acknowledged their contributions in footnotes to the text. Lorna Brown, Andrew Rodker, Margaret Doyle of Clongowes Wood College, Ireland, have contributed illustrations, as has Roger Mann from his private collection. I thank them all. For various reasons, this book has been a long time in the writing. I am most grateful to my editor, David Jeater, for his encouragement, patience and efficiency. I have benefited considerably from David’s knowledge of cricket history and the cricket literature. I am also grateful to David Pracy for his comments on an early draft; to Brian Rendell for preparing the index; to Ray Greenall and John Ward the proofreaders; and to Peter Griffiths for his diligent typesetting and for his management of the book’s production. Above all, though, my thanks go to my wife, Anne, for her support in a project that became something of a long-running obsession. M.H. 125