George Bent Buckley (born in Yorkshire c. 1885; died 26 April 1962, aged 77) was a celebrated cricket historian and an authority on the early days of the game. The White Yorkshire rose. ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Cricket is a team sport played between two groups of eleven players each. ...

A surgeon by profession, he won the Military Cross in 1916 for working under fire when he was serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War. After he retired, he devoted his time to researching early cricket history and travelled all over England to visit local libraries. He collected a mass of cricket historiana from old newspapers and dutifully noted every reference he could find relating to 18th Century cricket. His researches were consolidated in his two classic books: Fresh Light on Eighteenth Century Cricket (1935) and Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket (1937). Surgery Surgery is the medical specialty that treats diseases or injuries by operative manual and instrumental treatment. ... Military Cross The Military Cross is a military decoration awarded to personnel of the British Army, and formerly also to officers of the armies of other Commonwealth countries, for distinguished and meritorious services in battle. ... 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

He moved to Weston-super-Mare in 1938 and lived in a pleasant Victorian house just a stone's throw from the local cricket ground. Weston-super-Mare is an English seaside resort town in North Somerset, population 65,000 (1991 estimate). ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

John Arlott states in the 1980 version of Barclays World of Cricket that Mr Buckley's researches were continued in volumes of photo-reproduced typescript and manuscript, produced under the aegis of Rowland Bowen in 1960. It is probable that even more notes by Mr Buckley still exist unpublished. Leslie Thomas John Arlott (February 25, 1914 - December 14, 1991) (known as John Arlott) was a British sports commentator for Test Match Special. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...