Cecil Headlam (19 September 1872 – 12 August 1934) was an English author and first-class cricketer active in 1895–1908, who played for Middlesex and Oxford University. He was born in Paddington; died in Charing. He was also a cricket historian.
Headlam was the fifth son of Edward Headlam (1824–1882) and his wife Mary Anne Johnson Sowerby. He had four older brothers and a sister. His father was the fifth of seven sons of Rev. John Headlam and his wife Maria Wilson-Morley.
Headlam was educated at Rugby School, then won a demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford. He travelled extensively and wrote travel books and histories, and edited anthologies including a collection of the poems of his brother Walter.
His recreations included cricket, fishing, golf, climbing, and gardening.
In 1913, Headlam married Mary May Elles Fraser.
Works
The Story of Nuremberg. Dent. 1899.
Peter Vischer. Bell. 1901.
The Marriage of Mr. Molyneux. Hurst & Blackett. 1901.
The Story of Chartres. Dent. 1902.
Friends that Fail Not: Light Essays Concerning Books. Hurst & Blackett. 1902.
Ten Thousand Miles through India and Burmah: Account of Oxford Authentics' Cricket Tour with Mr. K. J. Key in Year of Coronation Durbar. Dent. 1903.
Oxford and its Story. Dent. 1904.
Provence and Languedoc. Methuen. 1912.