Lives in Cricket No 19 - Frank Sugg

grandfather) and Bert’s first wife Evelyn was apparently so deep that Evelyn would not keep any family papers or photographs in which Frank Sugg featured. It has to be said that Lorna Brown had never heard any suggestion that Frank, her grandfather, had a weakness for gambling. (She had never met Timothy Sugg, who lives in the Hope Valley in Derbyshire, nor any of Timothy’s side of the family.) She knew about the financial difficulties that Frank had faced at various times in his life but not of any gambling losses that might have been a contributory factor. It is not possible to establish the facts at this distance but clearly there had to be a serious breakdown in relationships for a man of Frank Sugg’s stature to be ostracised by the family of his own brother. However, whatever the cause, it had no bearing on Frank Sugg’s cricket career. Marriage and Family 67