Bernard Bosanquet (cricketer)

Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet was an English cricketer best known for inventing the googly, a delivery designed to deceive the batsman. When bowled, it appears to be a leg break, but after pitching the ball turns in the opposite direction to that which is expected, behaving as an off break instead. Bosanquet, who played firstclass cricket for Middlesex between 1898 and 1919, appeared in seven Test matches for England as an allrounder. He was chosen as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1905.

Bosanquet was born in Bulls Cross, Enfield, Middlesex, onOctober 1877. He was one of five children of Bernard Tindal Bosanquet and his wife Eva Maude Cotton Bosanquet had a younger brother and three sisters. Many of his relations were well known in their fields, including his uncle and namesake Bernard Bosanquet the philosopher. His grandfather, James Whatman Bosanquet, was a banker and achieved distinction as a biblical historian. His father worked for the banking firm Bosanquet amp Co., and became a partner in a firm of hide, leather, and fur brokers in London he was also High Sheriff of Middlesex from 1897 to 1898 and captained Enfield cricket club.

Source: Wikipedia