Dickie Bird 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 gained the nickname 'Dickie' at school. He lives in the South Yorkshire village of Staincross. Bird failed his 11-plus and went to Raley Secondary Modern School, leaving in 1948 at the age of 15. For a while, he worked at a coal mine on the surface, but
Trevor Martin (umpire) Trevor Martin (umpire) William Trevor Martin (19 February 1925 – 4 August 2017) was a New Zealand Test cricket umpire. Born in Nelson on 19 February 1925, Martin was educated at Nelson College from 1939 to 1940. In 1951, he married Ngaire Dawn Wilmshurst in Nelson. Martin was an umpire in first-class cricket from December 1958 to January 1978. A substantial majority of his first-class matches as umpire were played at Wellington's Basin Reserve. He also umpired six List A one-day matches. He stood in 15 Test matches between 1963 and 1973. All of the Test matches he umpired were