Cecil Headlam

Cecil Headlam (19 September 1872 – 12 August 1934) was an English author and first-class cricketer active in 1895–1908, who played for Middlesex and Oxford University. He was born in Paddington; died in Charing.[1] He was also a cricket historian.[2]

Headlam was the fifth son of Edward Headlam (1824–1882) and his wife Mary Anne Johnson Sowerby.[3] He had four older brothers and a sister. His father was the fifth of seven sons of Rev. John Headlam and his wife Maria Wilson-Morley.[4]

Headlam was educated at Rugby School, then won a demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford. He travelled extensively and wrote travel books and histories,[5] and edited anthologies including a collection of the poems of his brother Walter.[6]

His recreations included cricket, fishing, golf, climbing, and gardening.[7]

In 1913, Headlam married Mary May Elles Fraser.[4]

Works

  • The Story of Nuremberg. Dent. 1899.
  • Peter Vischer. Bell. 1901.[8]
  • The Marriage of Mr. Molyneux. Hurst & Blackett. 1901.
  • The Story of Chartres. Dent. 1902.
  • Friends that Fail Not: Light Essays Concerning Books. Hurst & Blackett. 1902.
  • Ten Thousand Miles through India and Burmah: Account of Oxford Authentics' Cricket Tour with Mr. K. J. Key in Year of Coronation Durbar. Dent. 1903.
  • Oxford and its Story. Dent. 1904.[9][10]
  • Provence and Languedoc. Methuen. 1912.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Cecil Headlam at CricketArchive
  2. ↑ অযান্ত্রিক (18 June 2014). "Calcutta Armenians, Calcutta, c. 1660". puronokolkata.com. Purono Kolkata. Archived from the original on 28 January 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  3. ↑ Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton; Lawson, William John; Oakes, Charles Henry; Addison, H. R (1913). Who's Who (65th ed.). London: Adam & Charles Black. p. 961 – via HathiTrust.
  4. 1 2 Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. Vol. Three. London, England: Burke's Peerage Limited. 1972. pp. 439–440. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  5. ↑ Who's who in Literature. Literary Year Books Press. 1924. p. 185.
  6. ↑ HEADLAM, Cecil, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
  7. ↑ Who's who, A. & C. Black, 1906, p. 787
  8. ↑ "Review of Peter Vischer by Cecil Headlam". The Monumental News. XIV (9): 535. September 1902.
  9. ↑ "Review of Oxford and its Story by Cecil Headlam". The Academy and Literature. 67 (1696): 408–409. 5 November 1904.
  10. ↑ "Review of Oxford and its Story by Cecil Headlam". The Athenaeum (4034): 199–200. 18 February 1905.
  11. ↑ "Review of Provence and Languedoc by Cecil Headlam". The Athenaeum (4432): 373. 5 October 1912.

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