2nd not 1st: Essex 1899-1914 (6th ed)

(1881-1916) and Richard Prescott (1883-1972) both played first-class cricket for Essex and other teams. Herbert was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Peterhouse, Cambridge. In the Second South African (Boer) War, he served as a Lieutenant in the Suffolk Regiment. He stayed on in Southern Africa and in 1903 married Lydia Josephine King-Church (1968-1963), with whom he had three girls and two boys in Rhodesia. He later joined the colonial civil service and became Director of Native Development, Southern Rhodesia. He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1924 Birthday Honours ‘on the termination of the administrative functions of the British South Africa Company in Southern Rhodesia and in Northern Rhodesia.’ He became Director of Education in Sierra Leone but by 1933 had retired and settled at Lone Pine, Great Bookham near Guildford, Surrey. According to the 1939 Register, Herbert came out of retirement to work as an editorial secretary. He was listed at Lone Pine with his daughter Rhoda, son-in-law Alan Oliver and grand-daughter Caroline. Lydia was staying at St Andrews House, an elegant hotel in Droitwich Spa. After the war he returned to South Africa where he died in 1963, leaving £3117 (about £62,000 in 2022). Keigwin was a useful right-hand batsman. No scorebooks for Essex Club & Ground survive and newspaper reports are infrequent, but in 1899 his Cambridge town and gown partnership with Essex professional Bill Reeves put on 214 for the first wicket in 95 minutes, both scoring centuries. In 1900 and 1901 Keigwin played in Essex Second XI’s two matches away to Surrey, scoring 28 runs in three innings, but he never graduated to the First XI. In six matches in 1901 he stepped up to first-class cricket for Cambridge University and London County but scored only 100 runs in ten innings. Keigwin was considerably more successful as a cricketer in Rhodesia. In 1910 he played for them in two matches against HD Leveson Gower’s touring team, scoring 196 runs at 49.00 including a career-best 111, made as an opener in 210 minutes and including 13 fours. His last match recorded on CricketArchive was in 1921 when, opening for Salisbury against Bulawayo in the final of the Logan Cup, he scored 39 and 28. Batting and fielding record M I NO RUNS AVE 100s 50s CT ST Friendly 2 3 0 28 9.33 3 Highest score: 25. Knight, Charles Stafford (1870-1956) Born: Q3 1870 Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex. Died: 6 August 1956, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Played 1900, 1901. CS Knight, who played four matches for Essex 2nd XI, was almost certainly Charles Stafford Knight, who in 1901 was the only male Knight in Essex with those initials. He was born in 1870 at Sunnyside, Sunbury-on-Thames, one of the five sons and five daughters of Elizabeth Manning and Henry Edmund Knight, a prosperous dry goods merchant. In 1882 Henry became Lord Mayor of London in 1882 and was knighted, giving rise to a ponderous Punch joke that ‘He can’t be made a Knight because he’s one already’.