Club Legends
(alphabetic order)
JOHN ‘JACK’ ARMSTRONG (KCC playing career 1899 to 1933)
RONALD REX ARMSTRONG (1948 to 1963)
THOMAS ARMSTRONG (1883 to 1928)
WALTER ATTEWELL (1883 to 1909)
WILLIAM ‘DICK’ ATTEWELL (1875 to 1903)
ROBERT ALAN BAKER (1986 to the present day)
DAVID R BALDREY (1970 to 2011)
JOHN BALDREY (1965 to 1990)
JOHN BICKLEY (born in Keyworth – All England player 1850s)
HARRY W BOLTON (1890 to 1928)
ALAN J COPSON (1968 to 1990)
JOHN K DRING (1970 to 2016)
RICHARD W DRURY (1983 to the present day)
ANDREW D ‘TED’ ELLIOTT (1982 to 2017)
SAM J FOSTER (2011 to the present day)
IAN D GRAHAM (2005 to 2016)
DAVE HALLAM (1964 to 2009)
HARRY R HENSON (1932 to 1963)
KEITH J HODGETT (1948 to 1971)
SHAUN JOHN KING (1979 to 2002)
WILLIAM LACEY (1878 to 1906)
ERNIE W J LAY (1976 to 2018)
STUART MEEK (1979 to 2014)
ARTHUR PIKE (1881 to 1898)
JOHN PIKE (1862 to 1898)
SHELTON PIKE (1884 to 1904)
WILLIAM LANE PIKE (1875 to 1903)
STEPHEN RENDU (2000 to 2016)
THOMAS B SIMPSON (1893 to 1922)
GERALD STARBUCK (1958 to 1962)
GEORGINA A SUTTON-WALKER (2020 to the present day)
GEOFFREY PAUL TINDSLEY (1999 to the present day)
CHARLES WILLIAM UNDERWOOD (1935 to 1965)
ESSAN J WARNER (2019 to 2021)
MATTHEW WILLIAM WRIGHT (1875 to 1890)
Legends, an honourable mention…
The most difficult task was to choose which “Legends” to include with a biography and which to leave out and therefore I give honourable mention to those who were considered but did not make the final short list…
Ezra Attewell; Thomas Attewell; Alex Ball; Les Bloor; Mike Brooks;
George Green; Billy Gunn; Harry Hebb; Tommy Hebb; Tim Hepburn;
Tommy Hinchliffe; Brian Johnson; Kevin Keep; Ian Kitchinson; Chris Ladd; Clive Morrissey; Barry Newby; Tony Newby; Phil North; Jack Oldham; Shelton Pike; Jeff Read; John Reeve; Joe Reid; Josh Simpson,
Tommy Simpson; William Tomlinson; Geoff Ward & William Widdowson.
Thanks & Acknowledgements…
Keyworth & District Local Historical Society including..
Keyworth 1894-1994 – A Century of Change 1994
Keyworth & World War One, by Howard Fisher 2011
Peter Wynn Thomas (Notts CCC Cricket Library, Trent Bridge)
Nottinghamshire County Library Service & Keyworth Library
Victorian Nottingham – A Story in Pictures, volume 18
(book by Richard Iliffe & Wilfred Baguley, published 1977)
100 Years of Trent Bridge, by E V Lucas (1938)
Notts County Cricket Annual, by C H Richards (1901-4, 1907 & 1913)
Nottinghamshire Cricket & Cricketers, by F S Ashley-Cooper (1923)
Nottinghamshire Cricketers 1821-1914, by Peter Wynn Thomas (1971)
Nottinghamshire Scores & Biographies 1888-1900, by A W Shelton (1903)
Trent Bridge One Hundred & Fifty Years 1883-1988, by P W Thomas (1987)
William Attewell – his cricket career, by C H Richards (1891)
Memories of Club Cricket, by H Turner (1890)
A History of Buckinghamshire CCC, by Douglas Miller (2006)
Cricinfoengland www.cricinfo.com
The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper
The Hurlingham Club & Argentine British Community Council & Jeremy Simpson
The Helensburgh Heritage Trust & Donald Fullerton
Football League Players’ Records 1888-1939, by Michael Joyce
The PFA Premier & Football League Players Records 1946-98,
by Barry J Hugman
Additional Photographs from…
Alastair Armstrong, Barry Baker, Helen Coan, Diane Disney, Gino Farabella, Howard Fisher, Lynn Gadd, Keith Hodgett, Douglas Marchbank,
Margaret Walker & Eric Watson.