David Foot (24 April 1929 – 25 May 2021)[1] was a British journalist and historian who wrote extensively on English cricket and the West Country.
He began his journalistic career with the Western Gazette in Yeovil before moving on to the Bristol Evening World, where he was the drama critic, at this time cricket being only a minor part of his writing.
[2] In the national press he contributed primarily to The Guardian from 1971 to 2011, writing chiefly on Somerset and Gloucestershire cricket, together with some football reports and theatre reviews.
[8] Reviewing it in Wisden, Geoffrey Moorhouse agreed with the opinion of Dennis Silk in the book's foreword that as a writer Foot "is as good as Robertson-Glasgow at his best".
"[10] The sport journalist Frank Keating called Foot's biographies of Harold Gimblett and Wally Hammond "imperishable classics in cricket's canon".