Lives in Cricket No 21 - Walter Read

126 Appendix A Chronology 1855 Born in West Street, Reigate 1869 Début for Reigate Priory Cricket Club 1871 Assistant Teacher at Holmesdale House 1873 Début for Surrey 1877 First plays in Gentlemen v Players fixture 1879 First Reigate Priory Cricket Week 1881 Appointed Assistant Secretary to Surrey County Cricket Club 1882/83 Début for ‘England’ on Ivo Bligh’s tour of Australia 1885 Short Hints on Cricket Marries Florence Wells in Reigate 1887 Consecutive double-centuries 1887/88 Tours Australia with G.F.Vernon. Captains ‘England’ in only Test 1888 338 v Oxford University 1891/92 Captains ‘England’ in South Africa 1893 Resurrects Reigate Priory Cricket Week 1896 Annals of Cricket 1897 Retires from first-class cricket 1905 Appointed as ‘Instructor’ by Surrey 1907 Dies in Addiscombe; buried in the churchyard of St John the Evangelist, Shirley