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

Association. He was a member of the England Hockey Selection Committee from 1904-6 and in 1904 he organised the first Easter hockey festival, at Scarborough. Batting and fielding record M I NO RUNS AVE 100s 50s CT ST Friendly 6 3 2 4 4.00 1 Bowling Balls M R W 5wI 10wM Friendly 402 23 165 9 Highest score: 3*. Best bowling: 5-48. Raison, Charles (1876-1934) Born Bow, Middlesex, Q1 1876. Died Hornchurch, Essex, 14 July 1934. Played 1903. He was the son of a shipbroker and in 1901 was a shipbroker’s clerk. By 1911 he had had a slightly unlikely change of career to become the employer at a laundry. In 1900 Charleshe married Florence Ellen Mundy and they had son Maxwell. Max Raison played 17 matches for Essex between 1928 and 1930 but was better known as a publisher of periodicals including Picture Post , New Scientist , New Society and The Eagle . Max’s son John captained Winchester College and John’s son Rupert captained Eton College, so four generations of the family are represented on Cricket Archive. Charles played three matches in 1903. Against Norfolk he scored 7 and bowled five overs but the other two games were ruined by rain and he neither batted nor bowled. Batting and fielding record M I NO RUNS AVE 100s 50s CT ST Friendly 3 1 7 7.00 Bowling Balls M R W 5wI 10wM Friendly 30 0 13 0 Highest score: 7. Best bowling: 0-13. Robinson, Thomas Alexander (1863-1949) Born Woolwich 5 May 1863. Died Worcester 7 July 1949. Played 1910. Thomas Alexander Robertson was baptised at the Roman Catholic Church of St Peter the Apostle in Woolwich. He married Rosetta Backshall in Mauritius in 1887 and they had three children. He became a freemason in Mauritius and later belonged to lodges at Aldershot, Plumstead and Harwich. He spent his whole career in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, starting as a corporal in 1883. He probably served overseas for a while but by 1911 he was a captain living at Ordnance