An autograph book containing the signatures of cricketers circa 1903-4, primarily Kent, Middlesex, Derbyshire, Hampshire & Yorkshire county cricket cl
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An autograph book containing the signatures of cricketers circa 1903-4, primarily Kent, Middlesex, Derbyshire, Hampshire & Yorkshire county cricket clubs, subjects including Leonard J Moon, Sir Foster H E Cunliffe, William P Robertson, Richard N R Blaker, Kenneth L Hutchings, Edward W Dillon, Gregor MacGregor (also played rugby for Scotland), C J Burnup (also played football for England), Bernard J T Bosanquet, George R Gregory, A E Lawton, Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard (also explorer, adventurer, big-game hunter, sniper), Levi G Wright (also played football for Derby County), E Maynard Ashcroft, Ernest G Read, Alexander C Johnston, D A Steele, E M Sprott, Leslie Gay (also played football for England), Lord Hawke (also Chairman MCC), Ranjitsinhji (Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar), John Tunnicliffe, George H Hirst, Walker Wainwright, James W Rothery, David Hunter, Wilfred Rhodes, David Denton, Hubert Myers, Schofield Haigh, Lees Whitehead; the album also containing non-cricketing signatures including the following that have been identified, (Politics / Government) Arthur Bigge (Private Secretary to Queen Victoria and George V) John Taylor Smith (Chaplain to the Forces 1901 - 1925); (Music) Frederick Ranslow (singer), Gregory Hart (singer), Nadia Sylva (singer), Marian Mackenzie (singer), Oscar Beringer (composer). W Backhaus (composer). Ellaline Terris (music hall), Seymour Hicks (music hall); the academic Hastings Rashdall; and the authors Frederic William Farrar & L Eardley-Simpson