Nicholas Wanostrocht, 1804 –1876, known as Nicholas Felix, was a first class cricketer credited with inventing the Catapulta (a bowling machine) as well as India-rubber batting gloves.

He also wrote a cricket manual, Felix on the Bat (1845) which was illustrated by his friend G F Watts (1817 – 1904), the artist who created the Watts Gallery in Compton. Watts had Adam East make a number of lithograph prints of his drawings illustrating the book.

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