Rowland Bowen

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Major Rowland Francis Bowen (born 27 February 1916; died 4 September 1978 at Buckfastleigh, Devon) was a noted cricket researcher, historian and writer.

Bowen is best known for his book Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development throughout the World (1970) and for being the editor of the magazine The Cricket Quarterly which ran from 1963 until 1970. Bowen was something of a "character" and became embroiled in numerous disputes with other people in the field of cricket research.

Educated at Westminster, Bowen served in the British armed forces and spent many years in Egypt, Sudan and India. He returned to England in the 1950s and was employed by the War Office, where he had the rank of major. He became involved in cricket research and history in 1958 but there is strong evidence that the pastime developed into an obsession.

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The Man Who Remade History: Rowland Bowen by Peter Wynne-Thomas (Cricket Lore magazine)