Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
21st, 22nd & 23rd March 2025
Lot 702
Estimate: £800/1200
Hammer: £700
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 1870. 7th edition. Bound in brown boards, lacking original paper wrappers, with title and date in gilt to spine, red speckled page edges. Pages checked, complete. Signature of ‘Charles W.A. Oakeley’ to front end paper and from his collection. Handwritten annotation by Oakeley of lists of cricket teams and scores to the ‘To the Reader’ page at the front of the book and odd page within the book, foxing mainly to the first few pages and the last few pages and to page block edge otherwise in good/very good condition. Rare. From the library of Earl of Sondes, the original owner of the ground at Canterbury. The ground was purchased by the county club from the 2nd Earl Sondes in 1896 and became Kent’s headquarters.
Sir Charles William Atholl Oakeley. 4th Baronet was a first-class cricketer and an officer in the Bengal Army. While studying at Oxford, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Oxford University against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord’s in 1848. Batting twice in the match, he scored 7 runs in the Oxford first-innings before he was dismissed by Alfred Diver, while in their second-innings he was run out, having scored a single run. He made a second appearance captaining the M.C.C. against Oxford University at Oxford in 1857. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 3 runs in the M.C.C. first-innings by Cloudesley Marsham, while in their second-innings he was unbeaten on 15. He died in Tunbridge Wells in 1915 aged 87 years