A tribute from David Jeater
Brian Rendell, who died in Bexhill on 27 April 2025, at the age of ninety, first watched Test cricket at Lord’s in 1946, as a schoolboy sitting on the grass in front of the Grand Stand.
He later had an interesting career in newspaper and magazine publishing, as well as a long involvement in the Shakespearean authorship question; he was a volunteer at the Globe Theatre on the South Bank.
A quiet Londoner, with a talent for careful research, he wrote three books in the ACS ‘Lives in Cricket’ series – on Frank and George Mann, Fuller Pilch and Walter Robins – and two more on England tours of Australia in the 1930s, based on Gubby Allen’s private letters.
More recently, he had been writing a biography of the underarm ‘demon’ bowler, George Brown of Brighton, who flourished in the 1830s.
Brian’s wife of 65 years survives him.