Lives in Cricket No 21 - Walter Read

13 Family Background The matrimonial home - ‘Micklefield’, Evesham Road, Reigate. Reigate Priory Cricket Club and the railway station from which WW commuted thanks to the first-class season ticket which formed part of his remuneration package from the county club. The house was large enough to accommodate the needs of a growing family which by the 1901 Census comprised Ida, aged 14, Walter Eric 11, Evelyn 10 and Leila 8. Walter’s birth in 1889 is covered in Cricket . SURREY cricketers will be interested to know that a young WW has recently been introduced into the world. It is a little early as yet to venture on a prediction that he will be one of the cricketers of the future. Like his father, though, it is gratifying to know that he is Surrey born, and if he shows the same aptitude, and at an equally early age, the public will be looking forward to his first appearance in County cricket, say, somewhere about the year 1906. 11 It did not happen. In 1906, Walter junior was in his seventeenth year, about the same age as when his father made his county 11 Cricket 12 September 1889