Lives in Cricket No 50 - Tom Emmett

131 Acknowledgements I would like to thank the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians for their support in publishing this book, and in particular, Mark Rowe, who acted as editor, for his advice. Also Kit Bartlett for proof-reading. I would like to thank the following people for their assistance during my research. To Mick Pope, for again providing support, letting me use documents and photographs from his collection, and for reviewing an early draft and offering suggestions. To Ron Deaton, who also very generously allowed me to use pictures from his collection, and for providing very helpful comments on the draft. To William Roberts, for allowing me to use the photograph of Emmett in the Keighley side from the 1860s, and an Emmett letter from his collection. To Andrew Smith, for commenting on my draft and offering very valuable additional material, as well as sharing the photograph of Emmett and P.F.Warner at Rugby School that he obtained during his own research (for which I gratefully acknowledge Rugby Library and Information Centre, Warwickshire County Council). To Tony Bradbury, for commenting on the draft and for sharing an early version of his biography of the Yorkshire cricketer, Rev. E.S.Carter, which provided insights into Emmett’s captaincy. I would also like to acknowledge the essential role played by the British Newspaper Archive, available at www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk . Without easy access to so much material, this book would not have been written. The work they are doing to digitise old newspapers is of immense importance to anyone interested in the past. I would like to thank staff at the local studies library of Calderdale Council in Halifax for their assistance, as well as the staff at the MCC library at Lord’s and the staff at the West Yorkshire Archive Service at Morley. I would like to thank Yorkshire County Cricket Club for use of the county minute book covering the period 1878-83.