Timothy John McCann (4 June 1944 – 26 June 2022[1]) was an English archivist.
Tim McCann joined the West Sussex Record Office in Chichester in 1967.
He wrote several books about the history of Sussex including a classic work on cricket: Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century (2004).[2] He previously wrote and edited The Correspondence of the Dukes of Richmond and Newcastle, 1724–1750 (1984),[3] a work about Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, and his close friend Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. McCann contributed more than twenty papers to the Sussex Archaeological Collections.
He was honoured by the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians as their Statistician of the Year in 2004.[4]
McCann died on 26 June 2022 aged 78.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Timothy McCann (4 Jun 1944 – 26 Jun 2022)". www.funeralguide.co.uk. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ^ McCann, Timothy J., ed. (2004). Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century. Sussex Record Society. Vol. 88. Lewes: Sussex Record Society. ISBN 0854450556.
- ^ McCann, Timothy J., ed. (1984). The Correspondence of the Dukes of Richmond and Newcastle, 1724–1750. Sussex Record Society. Vol. 73. Lewes: Sussex Record Society. ISBN 9780854450329.
- ^ "Statistician of the Year 2004 – Tim McCann". The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
