Cecil Headlam

Cecil Headlam (19 September 1872 – 12 August 1934) was an English author and first-class cricketer active in 1895–1908, who played for Middlesex and Oxford University. He was born in Paddington; died in Charing. He was also a cricket historian.

Headlam was the fifth son of Edward Headlam (1824–1882) and his wife Mary Anne Johnson Sowerby. He had four older brothers and a sister. His father was the fifth of seven sons of Rev. John Headlam and his wife Maria Wilson-Morley.

Headlam was educated at Rugby School, then won a demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford. He travelled extensively and wrote travel books and histories, and edited anthologies including a collection of the poems of his brother Walter.

His recreations included cricket, fishing, golf, climbing, and gardening.

In 1913, Headlam married Mary May Elles Fraser.