Frederick Samuel Ashley-Cooper
F.S. Ashley-Cooper
Born	(1877-03-22)22 March 1877 Bermondsey, London
Died	31 January 1932(1932-01-31) (aged 54) Milford, Surrey[1]
Nationality	English
Occupation(s)	Cricket historian, statistician
Notable work	Cricket Magazine

Frederick Samuel Ashley-Cooper (born c. 22 March 1877 in Bermondsey, London; died 31 January 1932 in Milford, near Godalming, Surrey) was a cricket historian and statistician.

According to Wisden, Ashley-Cooper wrote "103 books and pamphlets on the game ... besides a very large amount of matter including 40,000 biographical or obituary notices".^[1][2] For more than thirty years he was responsible for "Births and Deaths" and "Cricket Records" in Wisden; between 1887 and 1932 the Records section of the Almanack had grown from two pages to sixty-one pages.^[1] Frail and short-sighted, he never played cricket, and seldom watched, but his "total involvement in the game almost precluded every other interest".^[2]

Books

His most notable works were:

• Cricket Magazine (1900) reproducing notices of known matches played 1742 to 1751
• Sussex Cricket and Cricketers (1901)
• Curiosities of First-Class Cricket 1730-1901 (1901)
• Nottinghamshire Cricket and Cricketers (1923)
• The Hambledon Cricket Chronicle 1772-1796 (1924)
• Cricket Highways and Byways (1927) (essays)
• Kent Cricket Matches 1719-1880 (1929)

See also

• Variations in first-class cricket statistics

References

Further reading

• Wynne-Thomas, P., F S Ashley-Cooper - A Biographical Sketch & Bibliography, Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians, 2003

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