Lives in Cricket No 25 - Tom Richardson

132 Acknowledgements Hélène McCann for her help with an article in French for Le Sangerain , the village magazine of St Jean d’Arvey; Arthur Melville-Brown, President of the Cricket Philatelic Society, for the portraits of the 1897/98 tourists; Jo Miller, Librarian, Surrey County Cricket Club, for her never-failing helpfulness in providing access to the Club Library, including photographs and museum items; Roger Moulton for his conscientious and constructive editing; Jenny Moulton for her proofreading; Philip Paine for directing my attention to Richardson’s grave in Richmond cemetery; David Oram for locating press-cuttings relating to Richardson’s death; David Richardson, General Manager - Cricket, International Cricket Council, for information on the family and for contributing a Foreword; Mary Lynn Richardson, great-niece of Tom Richardson, for access to her detailed research into family history, including reminiscences on an idyllic trip on the St Mawes ferry on a beautiful early Spring Cornish day; Richard Shaw and all at City Press in Leeds for efficient and professional type-setting; Tony Smith, friend of the Richardson family, for drawing my attention to Richardson memorabilia, particularly the diary of the 1897/98 tour of Australia; Duncan Stone, University of Huddersfield Cricket Research Centre, for directing my attention (via David Frith) to the 1902 New Malden speech; Marie-José Soubies, Deputy Mayor of St Jean d’Arvey, for her warm welcome to the village and providing a copy of Tom Richardson’s death certificate as well as invaluable information on the geography of the area ; Simon Sweetman for drawing my attention to Ben Travers’ comment on Richardson’s alcoholic consumption; Iain Taylor for helping to identify the players in the photograph of the Surrey team of 1896; Donald and Peter Van Rooyer, great-great-nephews of Tom, for family sporting reminiscences; John Whitmore, former Secretary, Mitcham Cricket Club; David Wood, Somerset County Cricket Club; Peter Wynne-Thomas for access to his index of The Cricketer; and, not least, my wife Jennifer for her never less than assiduous research into the Richardson family, Tom’s life outside cricket and substantial help with the illustrations. Sutton Surrey June 2012