F. S. Ashley-Cooper
Frederick Samuel Ashley-Cooper 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". 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. Frail and short-sighted, he never played cricket, and seldom watched, but his "total involvement in the game almost precluded every other interest".
Books
His most notable works were:- Cricket Magazine reproducing notices of known matches played 1742 to 1751
- Sussex Cricket and Cricketers
- Curiosities of First-Class Cricket 1730-1901
- Nottinghamshire Cricket and Cricketers
- The Hambledon Cricket Chronicle 1772-1796
- Cricket Highways and Byways
- ''Kent Cricket Matches 1719-1880''