Lives in Cricket No 27 - CB Llewellyn

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Neil Jenkinson was born in Winchester on 27 June 1939, the son of a schoolmaster who would rather have been a professional footballer, as his father, William, was for Gainsborough Trinity in Division Two of the Football League from 1900 to 1912. Neil went from Peter Symonds’ School, Winchester to King’s College, London, to study Classics. He qualified as a solicitor and remained with the same firm until 1987 when he was appointed a full-time chairman with the Employment Tribunals. His first book was a history of Peter Symonds’, followed by a full length biography of Phil Mead, Hampshire’s greatest batsman, and a book on the Warwickshire v Hampshire match at Edgbaston in 1922. ‘Here’s the Hambledon Club’ was followed by the life of Richard Daft, No.7 in the ‘Lives in Cricket’ series. He is married to Jill, whose patience once a volume is finished is almost exhaustable, and they have two sons.