Tim McCann joined the West Sussex Record Office in Chichester in 1967.
He wrote several books about the history of Sussex including a classic work on cricket: Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century (2004).
[2] He previously wrote and edited The Correspondence of the Dukes of Richmond and Newcastle, 1724–1750 (1984),[3] a work about Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, and his close friend Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle.
McCann contributed more than twenty papers to the Sussex Archaeological Collections.
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