G. B. Buckley

George Bent Buckley was an English surgeon who lived from 1885 to 1962 and is also remembered as a cricket historian. Born in Saddleworth, then in Yorkshire, the son of a solicitor, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War and won the Military Cross in 1916 for tending and dressing the wounded under very heavy fire, being wounded himself. He later became a senior surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary and belonged to the Manchester Medical Society. After retiring he searched old newspapers and local libraries for references to eighteenth century cricket, and his findings were gathered in two books, Fresh Light on Eighteenth Century Cricket (1935) and Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket (1937). He moved to Weston-super-Mare in 1938.