H. T. Waghorn, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

H. T. Waghorn

Cricket historian

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1842

Date of Death: 30-Jan-1930

Profession: cricketer

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About H. T. Waghorn

  • Henry Thomas Waghorn (11 April 1842 – 30 January 1930), was a cricket statistician and historian.
  • He is best known for his two classic researches into cricket's early history: The Dawn of Cricket and Cricket Scores, Notes, etc.
  • (1730 - 1773).Waghorn was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
  • He had a career in the Army and then obtained a post at the British Museum, where he was able to indulge his love of research into old newspapers and periodicals.
  • Painstakingly, he assembled a mass of information from cricket notices, including some previously undiscovered match scores, which he eventually published in his two books.
  • He died in Walmer, Kent.

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