John Collis Snaith (24 February 1876 – 8 December 1936) was an English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officia ...

er active 1900 who played for

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. He was born in

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; died in Hampstead.John Snaith at ESPNcricinfo
/ref> He was also a novelist, writing as J. C. Snaith, and played in the

Authors Cricket Club The Authors Cricket Club is a wandering amateur English cricket club founded in 1892 and revived most recently in 2012. Prominent British writers including Arthur Conan Doyle, P.G. Wodehouse, A.A. Milne and J.M. Barrie have been featured as play ...

alongside fellow authors

A. A. Milne Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winni ...

and

P. G. Wodehouse Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, ( ; 15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeve ...

among others.

Works

*''Mistress Dorothy Marvin: being excerpts from the memoirs of Sir Edward Armstrong, baronet, of Copeland Hall, in the county of Somerset'' (London: A.D. Innes, 1895) biography *''Fierceheart the Soldier'' (London: A.D. Innes, 1897) *''Lady Barbarity: a romantic comedy'' (London: Ward, Lock, 1899) *''Willow the King: the story of a cricket match'' (London: Ward, Lock, 1899) *''Fortune'' (London: T. Nelson, 1901) *''Patricia at the Inn'' (Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1901) *''Love's Itinerary'' (New York: D. Appleton, 1902) (possibly previous novel under alternate title) *''The Wayfarers'' (London: Ward, Lock, 1902) *''Brooke of Covenden'' (London: Archibald, Constable & Co, 1904) *''Henry Northcote'' (London: Archibald, Constable & Co, 1906) *''William Jordan Junior'' (London: Archibald, Constable & Co, 1907) *''Araminta'' (London: George Bell & Sons, 1909) (revised edition published 1921) *''Mrs. Fitz'' (London: George Bell & Sons, 1910) *''The Principal Girl'' (London: Methuen & Co, 1912) *''An Affair Of State'' (London: Methuen & Co, 1913) *''Anne Feversham'' (London: D. Appleton, 1914) *''The Great Age'' (London: T. Hutchinson, 1915) *''The Sailor'' (London: Elder & Co, 1916) *''The Coming'' (London: Chatto & Windus, 1917) *''Mary Plantaganet: an improbable story'' (London: Cassell & Co, 1918) *''The Time Spirit: a romantic tale'' (New York: D. Appleton, 1918) (possibly ''Mary Plantaganet'' under alternate title) *''Love Lane'' (London: W. Collins Sons & Co, 1919) *''The Undefeated'' (New York: D. Appleton, 1919) (possibly previous novel under alternate title) *''The Adventurous Lady'' (London: W. Collins Sons & Co, 1920) *''The Council of Seven'' (London: W. Collins Sons & Co, 1921) *''The Van Roon'' (New York: D. Appleton, 1922) (possibly previous novel under alternate title) *''The Crime of Constable Kelly'' (London: T. Nelson, 1924) *''Time and Tide'' (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1924) (possibly also published as ''There Is A Tide'', D. Appleton, 1924) *''Thus Far'' (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1925) *''What Is To Be (Che sarà sarà)'' (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1926) *''The Hoop'' (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1927) *''Surrender'' (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1928) *''Cousin Beryl'' (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1929) *''The Unforseen'' (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1930) *''Indian Summer'' (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1931) *''But Even So'' (London: T. Hutchinson, 1935) *''Curioser and Curioser'' (London: T. Hutchinson, 1935) (reprinted as ''Lord Cobbleigh Disappears'', D. Appleton, 1936) *''One Of The Ones'' (London: T. Hutchinson, 1937) posthumous

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