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64 Warwickshire in 1919 his first-class career - but never more than one in a single innings. Arthur Conway had taken 9-38 and 6-49 for Worcestershire v Gloucestershire at Moreton-in-March in 1914, but these were the only 5WIs of his 31-match, 57-wicket first-class career which ended at the end of the 1919 season. He played 30 games at half-back for Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1908/09 and 1909/10. James Higgs-Walker ’s entire first-class career consisted of one match for Worcestershire at Cheltenham in 1913, and the Edgbaston game in 1919. He went into teaching, and was headmaster of Sevenoaks School from 1925 to 1953. Fred Hunt had joined Worcestershire from Kent in 1898, when Worcestershire were still a minor county, as head groundsman and occasional player. In all he made 53 appearances for the county between 1900 and 1922. He remained as head groundsman at New Road until the end of the Second World War, earning a reputation for his fine batting wickets and immaculate outfields. The outdoor life evidently suited him, and he lived to see his 91st birthday, making him the longest-lived of the players from the 1919 match. The father and uncle of Herbert Isaac had both played for Worcestershire before the First World War, when both were killed in action. Herbert played no first-class cricket after 1919, and later moved to Africa, where he played for the Settlers against the Officials in Kenya in 1925 (when he was out ‘stumped’ in both innings), 1926/27 and 1932/33. He died at Chisekesi, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in April 1962. Wing Cdr Harold Shakespeare OBE MC AFC played 26 matches for the county between 1919 and 1931, and reappeared in two matches for Worcestershire II in 1949 when approaching his 56th birthday. He was President of Worcestershire CCC from 1974 until his death in July 1976. Dr James Turner MC played his last first-class match in 1921. He was later the Bursar of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and was the father-in-law of Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991.