Cuthbert Ottaway is England's greatest sportsman. He was the captain of the first ever England national football team, he played for the England national cricket team and he also competed at a high level in Racket (early form of squash), Tennis and Athletics for Oxford. The brief for this project was to create a memorial of anything. Most people went down the route of doing a personal memorial but I just can't work in that way, I like to know that my work could actually benefit or inform someone about something. I started off by looking at not so famous, important inventions and inventors. This then lead me to finding Cuthbert Ottaway, the unsung sportsman. To secure the memory of Cuthbert I created a set of stamps which feature symbolism's to represent the five different sport areas he competed in. I then presented them by sticking them to envelopes and addressing them to more well known sportsman in their respected individual sports.Â
