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Frederick Samuel Ashley-Cooper (born c. 22 March 1877 in Bermondsey, London; died 31 January 1932 in Milford, near Godalming, Surrey) was a cricket historian and statistician.
According to Wisden, Ashley-Cooper wrote "103 books and pamphlets on the game ... besides a very large amount of matter including 40,000 biographical or obituary notices". For more than thirty years he was responsible for "Births and Deaths" and "Cricket Records" in Wisden; between 1887 and 1932 the Records section of the Almanack had grown from two pages to sixty-one pages. Frail and short-sighted, he never played cricket, and seldom watched, but his "total involvement in the game almost precluded every other interest".
His most notable works were:
Cricket Magazine (1900) reproducing notices of known matches played 1742 to 1751
Sussex Cricket and Cricketers (1901)
Curiosities of First-Class Cricket 1730-1901 (1901)
Nottinghamshire Cricket and Cricketers (1923)
The Hambledon Cricket Chronicle 1772-1796 (1924)
Cricket Highways and Byways (1927) (essays)
Kent Cricket Matches 1719-1880 (1929)
^ a b "F. S. Ashley-Cooper". Wisden 1933. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
^ Quoted in E.W. Swanton, Follow On, Collins, London, 1977, p. 207.
^ Swanton, p. 207.