| Frederick Samuel Ashley-Cooper | |
| Birth Date: | 22 March 1877 |
| Birth Place: | Bermondsey, London |
| Death Place: | Milford, Surrey |
| Nationality: | English |
| Occupation: | Cricket historian, statistician |
| Notable Works: | Cricket Magazine |
| Office: | may be used as an alternative when the label is better rendered as "Office" (e.g. public office or appointments) --> |
Frederick Samuel Ashley-Cooper (born c. 22 March 1877 in Bermondsey, London; died 31 January 1932 in Milford, near Godalming, Surrey) was a cricket historian and statistician.
According to Wisden, Ashley-Cooper wrote "103 books and pamphlets on the game ... besides a very large amount of matter including 40,000 biographical or obituary notices".[1] [2] For more than thirty years he was responsible for "Births and Deaths" and "Cricket Records" in Wisden; between 1887 and 1932 the Records section of the Almanack had grown from two pages to sixty-one pages.[1] Frail and short-sighted, he never played cricket, and seldom watched, but his "total involvement in the game almost precluded every other interest".[2]
His most notable works were: