Hubert Preston
Hubert Preston (16 December 1868 – 6 August 1960)[1] was a journalist and writer who was editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for eight years from the 1944 edition to the 1951 edition.[2][3][4] He contributed to 51 editions of the Almanack, and was the oldest editor of the publication, being 74 when he started in the position.[5] He became a partner in the Cricket Reporting Agency in 1920.[6][7]
Career
Preston was educated at the
In 1945 Preston wrote of the England Australia game "War meant the home side experienced difficulty in finding the best of the available players. Some of the chosen men, coming almost straight from battlefields, must have regarded the first encounter primarily as a reunion with old friends, so that a thoroughly serious view of the game, such as the Australians clearly held, was too much to expect".[14]
Preston was known by the nickname HP or Deafy.[15] He was deaf for much of his life, using an ear trumpet before battery-operated hearing aids became available.
He was a strong supporter of the County Championship becoming two divisions, according to his notes in Wisden 1949.[16]
Upon Preston's death in 1960, Neville Cardus wrote that he was "with [Sydney] Pardon and Stewart Caine, the most courteous and best-mannered man ever to be seen in a Press Box on a cricket ground".[17] His funeral service was held at St Bride's Church in Fleet Street, London, on 17 August 1960.[1]
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- ^ "Obituary - Mr Hubert Preston". The Guardian. 8 August 1960. p. 4. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
- ISBN 9781408192269. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ^ "Boy! Copy! Telegram". ESPN Cricket Info. 18 October 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
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- ^ "Mr. Hubert Preston". The Times. 8 August 1960.
- ^ Richard Tomlinson (24 June 2016). "Swan stops play; How the cricketers' bible is being reinvented". TLS. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ISBN 978-1504998512. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ^ LizzieatBloomsbury. "Within the Confines of Lunacy: Jonathan Rice sifts through 120 years of Wisden's "Notes by the Editor"". wisdenblog. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ^ "A CENTURY OF Notes By Tim Rice - Originally published in the 2000 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack". Wisden:the blog. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ISBN 978-1408140840. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ^ Keating, Frank (10 April 2006). "Hatter pulled out Easter bunny before vanishing act". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
- ^ "Norman Preston, MBE". ESPN Cricket Info. 6 February 2006. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ Preston, Hubert (1949). "Notes by the Editor". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. Retrieved 18 January 2021 – via ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ Neville Cardus, "Hubert Preston", Wisden, 1961, pp. 157–59.