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((Short description|English cricket journalist (1907–2000)))
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((For|the English mycologist and museum curator|Ernest William Swanton (mycologist)))
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|            fullname = Ernest William Swanton
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|         death_place = [[Canterbury]], Kent, England
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'''Ernest William "Jim" Swanton''' ((post-nominals|CBE)) (11 February 1907 – 22 January 2000) was an English [[journalist]] and [[author]], chiefly known for being a [[cricket]] writer and [[Sportscaster|commentator]] under his initials, '''E. W. Swanton'''. He worked as a sports journalist for ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' and as a [[Sports commentator|broadcaster]] for [[BBC Radio]] for 30 years. He was a regular commentator on ''[[Test Match Special]]'', easily recognised by his distinctive "fruity" voice. After "retiring" in the 1970s, he continued to write occasional articles and columns until his death in 2000.

==Early life==
Swanton was born in [[Forest Hill, London|Forest Hill]] in [[south London]], the only son and eldest of three children of William Swanton, a [[stockbroker]], and Lillian Emily, daughter of a German merchant who, on marriage to an Englishwoman, changed his name from Wolters to Walters.<ref>((cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-73522|title=Swanton, Ernest William [Jim]|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/73522|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8|access-date=14 January 2021))</ref><ref>''Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket'', [[Stephen Fay]] and [[David Kynaston]], Bloomsbury, 2018, p. 2</ref> He was a large baby and known as Jim, a diminutive of "[[Jumbo]]", from his earliest years.  His father was treasurer of Forest Hill cricket club, and Swanton claimed that, whilst still a baby in his pram, he attended a cricket match at which [[W. G. Grace]], then aged 59, scored a century for [[London County Cricket Club|London County]] against Forest Hill.

He was educated at Brightlands prep school (later part of [[Dulwich College]] Preparatory School) and [[Cranleigh School]].  He did not excel at school academically or in sport, and decided to become a journalist on leaving school.

==Pre-war journalism==
Swanton started at the [[Amalgamated Press]] in [[Fleet Street]] in 1924.  He became a correspondent for the London ''[[Evening Standard]]'' in 1927, writing on cricket in the summer and rugby in the winter. He wrote about [[Test cricket]] for nearly 70 years, from the 2nd Test against Australia at Lord's in 1930 to the 4th Test against New Zealand at the Oval in 1999.  He started a parallel career as a broadcaster for the [[BBC Empire Service]] in 1934, and commentated on the [[English cricket team in South Africa in 1938–39|MCC tour to South Africa in 1938–39]], the first overseas tour to receive live [[BBC]] coverage.

Swanton formed his own cricket club in 1935, the Arabs, a [[nomad]]ic club with no home ground.  He also played three [[county cricket]] matches for [[Middlesex County Cricket Club]] in 1937 and 1938, all against university sides. He did not distinguish himself, scoring only 67 [[run (cricket)|runs]] in five [[first-class cricket|first-class]] [[innings]]. He was also president of Sandwich Town Cricket Club; he is labelled as having served the role for "25 years from 1976", although he died in January 2000.

[[Harry Altham|H. S. Altham]] had written ''A History of Cricket'', covering the period up until 1914. At Altham's invitation, Swanton continued the book to cover the period from the outbreak of [[World War I]] onwards. This extended edition was first published in 1938. For a revised edition in 1947 it was split into two volumes, the first by Altham and the second by Swanton. There were further updated editions in 1948 and 1962.

==Second World War==
Swanton served in the [[Bedfordshire Yeomanry]] in the [[Second World War]]. He was in the rank of acting major when wounded and captured by the Japanese in the [[Battle of Singapore]], and spent three years as a [[prisoner of war]].  His unit spent time in camps along the [[Burma Railway|Burma–Siam railway]], and he contracted [[polio]] and lost a considerable amount of bodyweight, but his well-thumbed copy of the 1939 ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack]]'' boosted morale.  He later described playing cricket with makeshift equipment and under conditions of extreme privation and the constant threat of brutality in an article, "Cricket under the Japs", for the 1946 edition of ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack''.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152863.html|title=Cricket under the Japs|website=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=14 January 2021))</ref>

==Post-war career==
He became cricket correspondent for ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' in 1946, remaining in that post until 1975. He was also editorial director of ''[[The Cricketer]]'' from 1967 to 1988. He toured Australia as a cricket correspondent seven times between 1946 and 1975, but never visited Pakistan to report on cricket, only reported on one Test match in India, and refused to visit South Africa from 1964 as a protest against ''[[apartheid]]''.  His writing style was very spare and simple, reporting what happened and why, without the flourishes of [[Neville Cardus]] or [[John Arlott]]. [[John Warr]] once described it as being "halfway between the [[Ten Commandments]] and [[Enid Blyton]]".  His radio commentary provided a contrast to the romanticism of Arlott.

Essentially a traditionalist, he regretted the passing of the [[Amateur status in first-class cricket|gentleman amateur cricketer]], and objected to the commercialisation brought about by [[Kerry Packer]]'s [[World Series Cricket]].  He served on the MCC main committee from 1975 to 1984.  He never served as president of the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]], but was elected an honorary life vice-president in 1989. He was president of [[Kent County Cricket Club]] in 1981, and president of the [[Cricket Society]] and the [[Forty Club]].

He was awarded the [[OBE]] in 1965 and the [[CBE]] in 1994. He published his autobiography, ''Sort of a Cricket Person'', in 1972, and published ''Cricketers of my Time'', a collection of obituaries from ''The Daily Telegraph'', in 1999.

He made his selections as one of the voters for the [[Wisden Cricketers of the Century]] in 2000, shortly before he died of heart failure in [[Canterbury]].((Citation needed|date=November 2008)) When ''[[The Cricketer]]'' completed 70 years in 1991, its then-editor Christopher Martin-Jenkins invited Swanton to select a greatest XI from those 70 years. Swanton's 11 included four Australians, four West Indians, two Englishmen, and one Indian. The team was: [[Jack Hobbs]], [[Sunil Gavaskar]], [[Don Bradman]], [[Gary Sobers]], [[George Headley]], [[Keith Miller]], [[Alan Keith Davidson|Alan Davidson]], [[Godfrey Evans]], [[Lance Gibbs]], [[Bill O'Reilly (cricketer)|Bill O'Reilly]], [[Malcolm Marshall]].

His obituaries were fulsome, with [[Ted Dexter]] in ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'' saying "He was the standard by which other cricket commentators were judged". He helped [[Tony Greig]] in Greig's early cricketing career in England.

==Personal life==
Swanton married Ann Marion Carbutt in February 1958.  She was daughter of [[Reymond de Montmorency]], housemaster at [[Eton College]], and the widow of a chartered accountant, George Carbutt. They lived near [[Sandwich, Kent|Sandwich]], Kent, and both enjoyed golf at [[Royal St George's]] nearby.  They also had a winter home at [[Sandy Lane (resort)|Sandy Lane]] in Barbados.  She died in 1998.

Swanton's wartime experience led him to a deep [[Anglo-Catholic]] faith, and he considered becoming an [[Anglican]] priest.  [[Lord Runcie]], former [[archbishop of Canterbury]], delivered the address at his funeral.  A respected biography of Swanton by [[David Rayvern Allen]] published shortly after his death revealed many previously unknown facts about his life.

==Bibliography==
* ''Elusive Victory'' (1951)  
* ''Cricket and the Clock'' (1952)  
* ''Best Cricket Stories'' (1953)
* ''West Indian Adventure 1953–1954'' (1954)  
* ''West Indies Revisited – MCC tour 1959–1960'' (1960)  
* ''A History of Cricket, Volume 2'' (1962)
* ''Cricket from All Angles'' (1968)
* ''Sort of a Cricket Person'' (1972)
* ''Swanton in Australia with MCC 1946–1975'' (1975)  
* ''Follow On'' (1977)
* ''Barclays World of Cricket'' (General Editor) (1980 – 2nd ed.)
* ''As I Said at the Time – a Lifetime of Cricket'' (1983)  
* ''[[Gubby Allen]] – Man of Cricket'' (1985)  
* ''Kent Cricket – a Photographic History 1744–1984'' (with [[C. H. Taylor]]) (1985)
* ''The Essential E. W. Swanton – the 1980s Observed'' (1990)  
* ''Last Over – A Life in Cricket'' (1996)
* ''Cricketers of My Time'' (1999)

==Further reading==
*''Jim: The Life of E. W. Swanton'' (2004) by [[David Rayvern Allen]]  ((ISBN|978-1-85410-900-2))

==References==
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==External links==
*((cricinfo|id=20449))
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/cricket/614842.stm Cricket pundit Swanton dies] ([[BBC News]], 22 January 2000)

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