William Goldwin
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William Goldwin
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William Goldwin was an English schoolteacher and vicar who left his mark on cricket by creating the sport's earliest known work of literature. Goldwin, whose name is sometimes spelt "Goldwyn", wrote a poem of 95 competent and sometimes graceful lines of Latin hexameters on a rural cricket match. It was called In Certamen Pilae and it was published in his Musae Juveniles in March 1706. Little is known of Goldwin himself. He attended Eton and then graduated to King's College, Cambridge in 1700. He
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English poet, schoolteacher, and vicar
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