J. B. Emtage Explained

James Emtage
Birth Date:	14 February 1902
Birth Place:	Saint John, Barbados
Death Place:	Essex, England
Date:	13 November 2020
Source:	http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/51766.html Cricinfo

James Bernard De Courcey Emtage (14 February 1902  - 12 August 1995) was a Barbadian writer, who published as J. B. Emtage. He was also a cricketer, who played in one first-class match for the Barbados cricket team in 1921/22.^[1]

Life

Emtage was educated at The Lodge School in Barbados, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He married Laurence May Briggs.^[2]

Works

• Ski Fever. London: Methuen & Co, 1936. With pictures by Lewis Baumer.
• Brown Sugar: a vestigial tale. London: Collins, 1966.
• Foolscap and Bells. Bognor Regis: New Horizon, 1982.
• Miss Cheevus: Polemical Novel. Moving Finger Books, 1993.

See also

• List of Barbadian representative cricketers

Notes and References

1. Web site: James Emtage . ESPN Cricinfo . 13 November 2020.
2. Book: The Author's & Writer's Who's who . Burke's Peerage . 1971.