Dickie Bird of the greatest cricket club in the world". In August 2014, Bird was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to "The Guardian" expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue. Dickie Bird Harold Dennis "Dickie" Bird, (born 19 April 1933, Staincross, West Riding of Yorkshire, England) is a retired English international cricket umpire. In February 2014, Yorkshire announced that Bird is to be voted in as the club's president at their Annual General Meeting on 29 March. The son of a miner, he
Dickie Bird Bird went on to write his autobiography simply titled "My Autobiography" (with a foreword by Michael Parkinson), which sold more than a million copies. A sequel titled "White Cap and Bails – Adventures of a Much Travelled Umpire" was published in 1999 by Hodder and Stoughton. Bird set up the Dickie Bird Foundation to help disadvantaged under-18s achieve their potential in sport. He was the subject of "This Is Your Life" in 1992 when he was surprised by Michael Aspel at Yorkshire Television. In 2000, Bird cut the first slice of the Millennium Pie which had been baked in the