The world of crickets and Gloucestershire cricket is a particularly poorer place after Roger Gibbons last week at the age of 80. President of the County Club between 2019 and 2022 Roger’s biggest heritage, I do not doubt, prove that the case is a continuous success Gloucestershire CCC Heritage Trust.
Trust is a charity organization dedicated to the preservation of county history and was founded in 2014. It was there at the beginning, and later when the Museum and the Learning Center were opened at the Nevil Road County headquarters in Bristol, Roger was one of the guardians.
It was in this capacity that I came across Roger a few years ago, and in various exchanges e -I was holding me on the occasional publication of the Museum. Roger himself was the author of the best of them and, although in my collection there is no full -length book that bears his name, his monographs have been some of the most boring supplements in recent years.
I suppose, it must be possible, and even probably that Roger had aid in design and exposed the booklets, but in their heart it was fascinating content. In any case, the monographs included examples of diligently explored and lesser -known aspects of the Gloucestershire cristen, they did better with the fact that, in addition to gaining a thorough understanding of his subjects, Roger was also a great word.
Started in 2015 with In memoryHonor to Gloucesterstershire with crisletters who made a final sacrifice for their country in the Great War. This one was repeated in 2019 with three more. The monograph that remains my personal favorite referred to a barely credible story of the suggested tour of India by Gloucestershire -Page 1936/37, A tour that has never been.
The other two titles in 2019 were Delayed in transitView the formation and records of Western England XI records, a side that played through the 1944 war summers in 1944 and 1945. Dealing with a dead man. That last title I am convinced I would never see the light of day if there was no roger. This is the story of his discovery that for many years the historians of the game, archivists and statistics have mistakenly identified a man who made three anonymous performances for Gloucestershire in Victorian time.
And that was, three years until 2022, when four more titles appeared from Roger’s weekend industry. As for CB Grace He was the first, memoir of the legendary WG’s youngest son, Charles Butler Grace, who appeared four times in the first class game. George Pepall: Cricket and countrymenHe was, like treating a dead man, a look at a man who occasionally played for Gloucestershire around the twentieth century crossing that had an interesting story of returning.
The other two titles 2022 are fascinating views of the history of social and cries. Holiday holidays: Gloucester Cricsket Week 1943 Looking at a party during the holidays available for the Gloucestershire population in the war, and BRISTOL CRICKET CHALLEGE CUP 1885-1892 Competition She reconstructs the history of something he plays for the Victorian club ultimately not quite ready, Knock Out Cup.
In the circumstances I preferred to see, for three more years, we would see another Quartet publication from Roger, but unfortunately, it seems that his passage would end that idea, unless there is no title during the preparation. If I sincerely hope that they are well advanced enough to allow their colleagues at Heritage Trust to complete the projects and enter them into print.
Like historian Roger, he was also a collector, but I was told that, unlike some of the tragics crisifies, he was interested in a good job from the crislette. An accountant by profession, obviously, is from Fullsome Tributes that have appeared in the last few days, excellent companies and Fini Racontteur. I met him once, recently as last November, at an event organized by Stephen Chalke at Lansdowne Crickket Club. For me, it was an extremely pleasant event, encountering many people I have ever corresponded with e. At one point, Roger approached me, he apologized for the interruption, but said he wanted to introduce himself and said that we could undoubtedly talk later. Unfortunately, we never will, and now we will never, but even in that shortest meeting he strengthened Bonhomie, good humor and knowledge. A accompanying photo of him by signing some of his monographs in Border books’ salon,, It records very well.
