Famous Cricketers No 75 - Arthur Haygarth

Appendix III – Haygarth’s Cousins Brief particulars of Arthur Haygarth’s four cousins who played good cricket. These were the sons of the Revd. John Sayer Haygarth (1811-1859) who was Principal of the Royal Agriculture College, Cirencester, from 1851 until his death. Their great-grandfather, Dr. John Haygarth (1740-1827) was Arthur Haygarth’s grandfather. EDWARD BROWNLOW HAYGARTH Born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire on 26 April 1854, E.B. was a lower order right-hand batsman, wicket keeper and lob bowler. He played one match for Hampshire in 1875 and two games for Gloucestershire, his native county, in 1883, scoring just 18 runs in five completed innings. His wicket-keeping produced one stumping. Educated at Lancing, where he was in the eleven from 1868 to 1870, he later played for Berkshire. He was also an England international footballer. He was perhaps the most prominent inhabitant of Cirencester in his time and a local historian might find a biography of him worthwhile. For 36 years he was Secretary to the Agricultural College, he founded the local golf club where he was captain, and was in the same capacity at the cricket club in the 1890s. A solicitor by training he was also a Governor of the local school, Chairman of the Urban District Council where he founded the public library, and Editor of the local paper. He died at Siddington, Gloucestershire on 14 April 1915 and is buried in the churchyard there with his wife and two sons. JOHN WILLIAM HAYGARTH Born in Rodmarton, Gloucestershire on 3 December 1842, J.W. was a hard-hitting lower order right-hand batsman and excellent wicket-keeper. He was four years in the Winchester XI and Captain in 1860 and 1861. All his ten first-class matches were for Oxford University, where he gained three blues (1862-64), for whom he scored 81 runs at an average of 6.75. It was as the side’s wicket-keeper he is mainly noted with 24 victims, of which half were stumped, a huge percentage. He had eight victims in his three University matches of which the first was lost by eight wickets but the other two were won in low scoring matches. His highest score is believed to be 183 against Oriel for Corpus Christie at Oxford where he was coached by William Caffyn and James Dean. In 1862 he played for the XXII of Cirencester against the All England XI and in 1864 for the Royal Agricultural College as a given man against Marlborough College. He was ambidextrous. He emigrated to Australia in 1865 to take up sheep farming. He died on 30 March 1923 at Korralbye, Ipswich, Queensland. FREDERICK HAYGARTH He attended Winchester where he was in the eleven for three years (1864-66). He then went up to New College, Oxford where he represented Oxford v Cambridge at billiards. He won the College Cue in 1870. He was born on 9 July 1847 and died at an early age on 14 June 1879 in London. GRAHAM ALBERT HAYGARTH A.H. stated that he was a good player. He was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire on 12 February 1851 but little further is known about him and further research is necessary. 28