Reginald William Ernest Wilmot (4 October 1869 – 26 May 1949[1]) was a leading sports journalist in Melbourne, Australia in the early 20th century, who used the nom de guerre of "Old Boy", and was well-respected for his writing on cricket and Australian rules football.
Along with Hugh Buggy, Wilmot was believed to have coined the term "bodyline" during the 1932/33 Ashes Test cricket series.
Wilmot also wrote several books on cricket including Defending The Ashes 1932-33 which gave a rare Australian perspective on this historic and controversial series.
[2] He was born in Bairnsdale, in Gippsland, the son of surveyor John George Winchester Wilmot and Hannah Louise Whittakers.
[8] His daughter, Jean Winchester Wilmot, married George Fisher Bemis, of Massachusetts, and emigrated to the US, whence she sent back to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, weekly "Letters from America", reporting on social, political and wartime life there.