John Rigg was born and raised in Leeds, Yorkshire. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a First Class degree in Economics, later completing a Ph.D. He worked as an economic consultant in London and in the Senior Civil Service in Scotland.John has been researching his family history for nearly 40 years and has published several articles for the Cleveland Family History Society Journal. His non-family history articles include those on economics and statistics for the Scottish Economic Bulletin and Scottish Economic Statistics.John has written extensively on watching sport. An Ordinary Spectator: 50 Years of Watching Sport was published by SilverWood Books in 2012 and Still An Ordinary Spectator: Five More Years of Watching Sport in 2017. The third book in the series - An Ordinary Spectator Returns: Watching Sport Again - was published in 2023. He has also written sport-related articles for the magazines Backpass (football), Backspin and The Nightwatchman (cricket), the Rugby League Journal and Forty-20 (rugby league) and (co-authored with Richard Lewney) the International Review of the Sociology of Sport.John's fiction is written under the name of JR Alexander. The novels - Shouting at the Window (2020) and On the Carousel (2021) - are published by High Ridge Publishing and available on Kindle and other online platforms. Long Forgotten Events will be published in 2025.He is married with two children and lives in Scotland.

“Highly recommended to anyone contemplating writing their own family history and an excellent genealogical read for anyone else interested in the subject. This is a book which contains practically all you could think of – the section on sources and the bibliography are in themselves amazing!” (Cleveland Family History Society Journal)

John Rigg was born and raised in Leeds, Yorkshire. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a First Class degree in Economics, later completing a Ph.D. He worked as an economic consultant in London and in the Senior Civil Service in Scotland.John has been researching his family history for nearly 40 years and has published several articles for the Cleveland Family History Society Journal. His non-family history articles include those on economics and statistics for the Scottish Economic Bulletin and Scottish Economic Statistics.John has written extensively on watching sport. An Ordinary Spectator: 50 Years of Watching Sport was published by SilverWood Books in 2012 and Still An Ordinary Spectator: Five More Years of Watching Sport in 2017. The third book in the series - An Ordinary Spectator Returns: Watching Sport Again - was published in 2023. He has also written sport-related articles for the magazines Backpass (football), Backspin and The Nightwatchman (cricket), the Rugby League Journal and Forty-20 (rugby league) and (co-authored with Richard Lewney) the International Review of the Sociology of Sport.John's fiction is written under the name of JR Alexander. The novels - Shouting at the Window (2020) and On the Carousel (2021) - are published by High Ridge Publishing and available on Kindle and other online platforms. Long Forgotten Events will be published in 2025.He is married with two children and lives in Scotland.

“Highly recommended to anyone contemplating writing their own family history and an excellent genealogical read for anyone else interested in the subject. This is a book which contains practically all you could think of – the section on sources and the bibliography are in themselves amazing!” (Cleveland Family History Society Journal)

John Rigg was born and raised in Leeds, Yorkshire. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a First Class degree in Economics, later completing a Ph.D. He worked as an economic consultant in London and in the Senior Civil Service in Scotland.John has been researching his family history for nearly 40 years and has published several articles for the Cleveland Family History Society Journal. His non-family history articles include those on economics and statistics for the Scottish Economic Bulletin and Scottish Economic Statistics.John has written extensively on watching sport. An Ordinary Spectator: 50 Years of Watching Sport was published by SilverWood Books in 2012 and Still An Ordinary Spectator: Five More Years of Watching Sport in 2017. The third book in the series - An Ordinary Spectator Returns: Watching Sport Again - was published in 2023. He has also written sport-related articles for the magazines Backpass (football), Backspin and The Nightwatchman (cricket), the Rugby League Journal and Forty-20 (rugby league) and (co-authored with Richard Lewney) the International Review of the Sociology of Sport.John's fiction is written under the name of JR Alexander. The novels - Shouting at the Window (2020) and On the Carousel (2021) - are published by High Ridge Publishing and available on Kindle and other online platforms. Long Forgotten Events will be published in 2025.He is married with two children and lives in Scotland.

“Highly recommended to anyone contemplating writing their own family history and an excellent genealogical read for anyone else interested in the subject. This is a book which contains practically all you could think of – the section on sources and the bibliography are in themselves amazing!” (Cleveland Family History Society Journal)