# List of Gloucestershire cricket captains

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club are an English cricket club based in Bristol. The club has played first-class cricket since 1870 against Surrey. The club have played both List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket since their introductions into the English game in 1963 and 2003 respectively.
The county were captained for their first 29 years of first-class cricket by W. G. Grace, whose family had helped form the club. The 359 first-class matches which he captained are the most by any player, eclipsing the combined 327 matches of Mark Alleyne, who led the county in all three formats of the game. Alleyne captained the county during its most prosperous spell, during which time they won eight one-day trophies. Gloucestershire have never won the official County Championship, but have runners-up on a number of occasions. They achieved this twice under the captaincy of Bev Lyon, whose captaincy was the primary factor in him being named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1931. Wisden noted that he was "a possible England captain," though he never went on to appear for England.
The majority of Gloucestershire's captains have been English, only Mike Procter and Courtney Walsh have played international cricket for a different nation. Walter Troup, Cyril Sewell and George Emmett were all born outside of the United Kingdom, but within the British Empire. Three members of the Graveney family captained the county: Tom Graveney from 1959 to 1960, his brother Ken Graveney from 1963 to 1964, and the latter's son David Graveney between 1982 and 1988.

## Key

* Years denotes the years in which the player was named as official club captain for Gloucestershire.
* First denotes the date of the first match in which the player captained Gloucestershire.
* Last denotes the date of the last match in which the player captained Gloucestershire.
* FC denotes the number of first-class matches in which the player captained Gloucestershire.
* LA denotes the number of List A matches in which the player captained Gloucestershire.
* T20 denotes the number of Twenty20 matches in which the player captained Gloucestershire.
* Total denotes the total number of first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches in which the player captained Gloucestershire.

## Official captains

| No. | Name | Nationality | Years | First | Last | FC | LA | T20 | Total |
| 1 | W. G. Grace | England | 1870–1899 | 28 July 1870 | 25 May 1899 | 359 | – | – | 359 |
| 2 | Walter Troup | England | 1899 | 15 May 1899 | 29 June 1911 | 21 | – | – | 21 |
| 3 | Gilbert Jessop | England | 1900–1912 | 14 May 1900 | 4 August 1913 | 252 | – | – | 252 |
| 4 | Cyril Sewell | England | 1913–1914 | 23 May 1912 | 31 August 1914 | 47 | – | – | 47 |
| 5 | Foster Robinson | England | 1919–1921 | 23 May 1919 | 30 August 1922 | 62 | – | – | 62 |
| 6 | Philip Williams | England | 1922–1923 | 30 June 1920 | 20 May 1925 | 49 | – | – | 49 |
| 7 | Douglas Robinson | England | 1924–1926 | 11 June 1921 | 21 August 1926 | 86 | – | – | 86 |
| 8 | William Rowlands | England | 1927–1928 | 28 May 1921 | 25 August 1928 | 60 | – | – | 60 |
| 9 | Bev Lyon | England | 1929–1934 | 29 May 1926 | 19 August 1939 | 128 | – | – | 128 |
| 10 | Dallas Page | England | 1935–1936 | 2 May 1934 | 29 August 1936 | 83 | – | – | 83 |
| 11 | Basil Allen | England | 1937–1938 1947–1950 | 22 July 1933 | 2 September 1950 | 190 | – | – | 190 |
| 12 | Wally Hammond | England | 1939–1946 | 6 June 1931 | 10 August 1946 | 63 | – | – | 63 |
| 13 | Derrick Bailey | England | 1951–1952 | 15 June 1949 | 30 August 1952 | 51 | – | – | 51 |
| 14 | Jack Crapp | England | 1953–1954 | 12 May 1951 | 1 June 1955 | 64 | – | – | 64 |
| 15 | George Emmett | England | 1955–1958 | 3 June 1953 | 15 August 1959 | 140 | – | – | 140 |
| 16 | Tom Graveney | England | 1959–1960 | 13 June 1951 | 27 August 1960 | 49 | – | – | 49 |
| 17 | Tom Pugh | England | 1961–1962 | 29 April 1961 | 5 September 1962 | 45 | – | – | 45 |
| 18 | Ken Graveney | England | 1963–1964 | 1 May 1963 | 2 September 1964 | 56 | 2 | – | 58 |
| 19 | John Mortimore | England | 1965–1967 | 29 April 1964 | 6 September 1967 | 94 | 4 | – | 98 |
| 20 | Arthur Milton | England | 1968 | 17 July 1957 | 13 September 1969 | 45 | 5 | – | 50 |
| 21 | Tony Brown | England | 1969–1976 | 27 April 1969 | 8 September 1976 | 165 | 149 | – | 314 |
| 22 | Mike Procter | South Africa | 1977–1981 | 26 May 1971 | 1 July 1981 | 93 | 94 | – | 187 |
| 23 | David Graveney | England | 1982–1988 | 13 May 1981 | 14 September 1988 | 170 | 144 | – | 314 |
| 24 | Bill Athey | England | 1989 | 12 July 1987 | 30 August 1992 | 29 | 24 | – | 53 |
| 25 | Tony Wright | England | 1990–1993 | 2 May 1989 | 7 July 1993 | 78 | 82 | – | 160 |
| 26 | Courtney Walsh | West Indies | 1993–1994 1996 | 4 August 1990 | 19 September 1996 | 41 | 36 | – | 77 |
| 27 | Jack Russell | England | 1995 | 8 August 1993 | 19 July 2002 | 24 | 37 | – | 61 |
| 28 | Mark Alleyne | England | 1997–2005 | 25 June 1994 | 25 September 2005 | 115 | 194 | 18 | 327 |
| 29 | Jon Lewis | England | 2006–2008 | 20 July 2005 | 4 June 2009 | 29 | 21 | 14 | 64 |
| 30 | Alex Gidman | England | 2009–2012 | 10 August 2005 | 11 September 2012 | 86 | 73 | 33 | 192 |
| 31 | Michael Klinger | Australia | 2013–2014 | 2013 | 2017 | - | - | - | - |
| 32 | Geraint Jones | England | 2015 | 2014 | 2015 | - | - | - | - |
| 33 | Gareth Roderick | South Africa | 2016-2017 | 2013 | 2020 | - | - | - | - |
| 34 | Chris Dent | England | 2018-2021 | 2009 | - | - | - | - | - |