Timothy John McCann (4 June 1944 – 26 June 2022
) was an English archivist.
Tim McCann joined the
West Sussex Record Office
The West Sussex Record Office at Orchard Street, Chichester, is the county record office for the county of West Sussex. It is run by West Sussex County Council.
Notable holdings
The record office holds a number of unique collections connected t ...
in
Chichester
Chichester () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in West Sussex, England.OS Explorer map 120: Chichester, South Harting and Selsey Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton B2 edition. Publi ...
in 1967.
He wrote several books about the history of
Sussex including a classic work on cricket: ''Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century'' (2004). He previously wrote and edited ''The Correspondence of the Dukes of Richmond and Newcastle, 1724–1750'' (1984), a work about
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 2nd Duke of Aubigny, (18 May 17018 August 1750) of Goodwood House near Chichester in Sussex, was a British nobleman and politician. He was the son of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmo ...
, and his close friend
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, (21 July 169317 November 1768) was a British Whig statesman who served as the 4th and 6th Prime Minister of Great Britain, his official life extended ...
. McCann contributed more than twenty papers to the ''
Sussex Archaeological Collections''.
He was honoured by the
Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) was founded in England in 1973 for the purpose of researching and collating information about the history and statistics of cricket. Originally called the Association of Cricket Statis ...
as their Statistician of the Year in 2004.
McCann died on 26 June 2022 aged 78.
References
1944 births
2022 deaths
Cricket historians and writers
English archivists
People educated at Westminster School, London
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