Lives in Cricket No 45 - Brief Candles 2

116 Acknowledgements I am indebted to a large number people for their assistance in the production of this book, in ways both large and small. Above all I am hugely grateful to Kevin and Marie-Louise Martin for sharing their time, their memories and Kevin’s scrapbook with me, and to Glenn Wilkinson for taking the time to write the story of his cricketing life for me, and for the entertaining emails that accompanied it. Special thanks are also due to Sarah Castley for her memories of her father, Harry Wilson; to Sir Robert Green-Price, for the pleasure of his company one afternoon in Radnorshire and for the loan of family albums; and to the Rev John Watkins, for so willingly and amusingly sharing the fruits of his own research into the life and times of Alfred Green-Price. For help on the lives of specific individuals, my thanks go in particular to the following: Derek Carlaw, Peter Clinton (CEO, Cricket Wellington, for putting me in touch with Glenn Wilkinson), Anthony Collis, Murray Craig (Clerk of the Chamberlain’s Court, City of London), Derek Crompton (Clerk, Plumstead parish council), Charles Davis, Georgina Edwards (Archivist, Brasenose College, Oxford), Colin Eldridge (Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers), Trevor Elliott (The King’s School, Peterborough), Neil Harris, Julian Lawton Smith, Malcolm Lorimer, Hilary Marchant (Presteigne Tourist Information), Chris Martin (son of Kevin), Tony Martin (Preston), Beverley Matthews (Tonbridge School), Olwen Morris (churchwarden at Evancoyd church at Evenjobb, Powys), Andrew Samson (for putting me in touch with Kevin Martin), Lynn Taylor (for transcribing the text of my first meeting with Kevin and Marie-Louise Martin), Mike Vockins, Tony Webb and James Wright. Thanks are due too to Neil Robinson at the MCC library, along with a host of librarians and assistants at the British Library newspaper collection (formerly at Colindale, now at St Pancras) and at local libraries and record offices across the country. For more general help I must offer my thanks to Philip Bailey, for supplying prompt responses (courtesy of the CricketArchive database) to the various off-the-wall queries that I sent him during the preparation of this book; to my fellow-Redingensian-by-adoption Martin Chandler, for the loan of numerous items from his extensive cricket library, usually at very short notice; to Martin Newman, for taking care of my all-too-often recalcitrant laptop; and to Mark Rowe, who has been a tolerant and forgiving editor throughout the process. I am also grateful to Kit Bartlett who proof-read this volume (though needless to say, any surviving errors or typos are my responsibility alone), and to those who supplied the photographs used in the book: Ray Webster and Helen Will (Melbourne), Sarah Castley, Glenn Wilkinson, Kevin Martin, John Watkins, Sir Robert Green-Price and