Gerald Howat, born Gerald Malcolm David Howat, was a British writer on cricket, a historian and a schoolmaster.
14 Facts About Gerald Howat
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Gerald Howat then did his National Service as a Flying Officer based at RAF Titchfield.
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Gerald Howat spent three years teaching for the oil firm Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd at Pointe-a-Pierre.
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Gerald Howat was able to combine his love of cricket with his college duties by instituting the biannual cricket matches between the History Department and his village cricket team of North Moreton for whom he was wicketkeeper and captain.
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Gerald Howat had an abrupt tutoring technique and once locked the door when the time of his tutor group was due to start which left only one student in the room to enjoy his didactic and engaging teaching style.
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Gerald Howat turned his hand to the world of publishing, for a time being general editor of the Historical Division of Pergamon Press.
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Gerald Howat spent a year with Mitchell Beazley editing an illustrated biographical dictionary entitled Who Did What.
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Gerald Howat was Head of History at Radley College, but writing and editing were taking much of his attention, and neither he nor the school was very happy with his time there.
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Gerald Howat was an associate editor of the 2004 edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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Gerald Howat supplied seventy entries himself, many on former cricketers.
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Gerald Howat covered schools cricket for The Daily Telegraph for many years, as well as for The Cricketer.
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Gerald Howat played club cricket as a wicket-keeper for Moreton CC in Oxfordshire until he was 77.
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Gerald Howat was associated with the club for almost fifty years.
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Gerald Howat was the Chairman of TASS, where his sons were educated.