Sir Home Gordon, 12th Baronet

After completing his schooling at Eton College in 1887, he became a journalist and writer and subsequently a publisher, at one time being the sole proprietor of Williams & Norgate Ltd.

In addition to his own books, he contributed to annuals for county cricket clubs and also wrote for the Encyclopædia Britannica.

[2] He was an enthusiastic statistician but a somewhat inaccurate one, a fact noted by Plum Warner in Sir Home's obituary in The Cricketer.

He collaborated with the latter two in editing the Marylebone Cricket Club's (MCC) Memorial Biography of W. G. Grace.

[6] As Gordon had no children from either of his two marriages, the title, created by King Charles I in 1631, became extinct with his death.