Lives in Cricket No 5 - Rockley Wilson

One subject in which Rockley showed little interest in his adult life was politics, although there can be no doubt which side of the political divide he supported when the occasion arose. During the 1926 General Strike, he signed on as a “special” probably more out of a sense of loyalty to the Government than any wish to defeat the miners and their trade union supporters. Even such an event he could embellish with his characteristic humour. He was allotted the number eleven in the temporary force and he recounted that the police officer commented “Your right place, Mr Wilson, No.11.” In short, Rockley Wilson deserves to be remembered as more than an excellent cricketer; articulate and cultivated, he was indeed a singular man. A Singular Man 48