Timothy J. McCann

{{Short description|English archivist (1944–2022)}} {{About|the British archivist||Tim McCann (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} '''Timothy John McCann''' (4 June 1944 – 26 June 2022<ref name="obit">{{cite web |title=Timothy McCann (4 Jun 1944 – 26 Jun 2022) |website=www.funeralguide.co.uk |url=https://www.funeralguide.co.uk/obituaries/101794 |access-date=3 August 2022 }}</ref>) was an English archivist.

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).<ref>{{cite book |editor-first=Timothy J. |editor-last=McCann |title=Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century |series=Sussex Record Society |volume=88 |location=Lewes |publisher=Sussex Record Society |year=2004 |isbn=0854450556 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015054438950&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021 }}</ref> He previously wrote and edited ''The Correspondence of the Dukes of Richmond and Newcastle, 1724–1750'' (1984),<ref>{{cite book |editor-first=Timothy J. |editor-last=McCann |title=The Correspondence of the Dukes of Richmond and Newcastle, 1724–1750 |series=Sussex Record Society |volume=73 |location=Lewes |publisher=Sussex Record Society |year=1984 |isbn=9780854450329 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015072454005&view=1up&seq=11&skin=2021 }}</ref> 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''.

He was honoured by the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians as their Statistician of the Year in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |title=Statistician of the Year 2004 – Tim McCann |publisher=The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians |url=https://acscricket.com/?page_id=202 |access-date=3 August 2022 }}</ref>

McCann died on 26 June 2022 aged 78.<ref name="obit"/>

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