Lives in Cricket No 24 - Edgar Willsher

106 All-England Eleven 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32 , 37, 39, 50, 51, 56, 58 All England XI (in North America) 55, 61, 66, 67, 71, 72, 77, 78, 81, 82 Anderson, George 32 Ashford, Kent 7, 34 Aylesford CC 12, 13, 14 Australia 51, 53, 56, 86 Australians (touring side) 51, 91, 93 Bailey, T.E. 22 Baily’s Magazine 33, 91 Baker, W.de C. 31 Baseball 56, 62, 63, 64, 67, 69, 71, 72, 74, 82, 83 Beagley, Thomas 45 Bearsted, Kent 12, 14, 15,16 Bedser, A.V. 18 Bell’s Life journal 16, 24, 28, 33, 36, 37, 39, 40, 43, 45, 46, 48, 51, 53, 60, 85, 86, 87, 88, 95, 98 Benenden, Kent 10-11, 16 Bennett, George 32 Bergenwood, New York 62 Bettesworth, W.A. 40, 55 Bickley, John 29 Blackheath, Kent 93, 97 Bligh, Hon Edward 32 Bligh, Hon Henry 32 Bligh, Hon I.F.W. 32 ‘Blink Bonny’ 37-38 Body Mass Index (BMI) 21 Boston, Massachusetts 58, 71, 75, 80 Boston XXII cricket team 71, 72 Boston, Riverside Park 71, 72 Box, Thomas 25, 91 Boy’s Own Magazine/Paper 46, 98 Bridge House Hotel, Southwark 49 British North America Act 1867 69 Broadbridge, James 35 Brooklyn Atlantics Baseball Club 67, 67 , 82 Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper 63, 64 Broughton, R.J.P. 47 Brown University, Providence 71 Burbridge, Frederick 39 Cadwalader, C.E. 76 Caesar, Julius 26, 50 Caffyn, William 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 36, 53 Cambridge, Massachusetts 71 Cambridgeshire CCC 18, 56, 57, 88 Cambridge University CC 29, 40, 47, 87, 91 Canada 53, 55, 69, 72 Canada cricket team 62, 64 Canterbury, Beverley Ground 12, 31 Canterbury, Kent 12, 15, 16, 25, 31, 32 Canterbury ‘week’ 31, 93 Captain McGowan (horse) 71 Carpenter, R.P. 32 , 53, 56, 84 Cashman, Richard 18 ‘Charitable Cricketer, A’ 36, 37 Charlwood, H.R.J. 54 , 57 , 58, 77, 78 Chatham, Kent 14 Chelmsford XXII cricket team 94 Chessenden House, Rolvenden 8, 9 Chilston Park, Kent 14 City of Baltimore, S.S. 59, 59 , 80, 82 Clarke, Alfred 32 , 53, 59 Clarke, William 24, 26, 27, 53 Clay, R.W. 76 Cobbett, William 7 Coward, Cornelius 94 Cranbrook, Kent 16, 28 Cricketers’ Fund Friendly Society 28, 29, 85, 98 Cricket magazine 19, 48 Crystal Palace, Sydenham 51 Daft, Richard 19, 36, 56, 84 Daily News newspaper 53 Dark, J.H. 29 Dean, James sen 28, 29 Derby, County Ground 94 Diver, A.J.D. 88 Dudley XXII cricket team 30 East Kent cricket team 16 Emmett, Thomas 21, 88 England 31, 32, 49, 58, 60, 84, 95 England XI cricket team 15, 16, 22, 25, 28, 33, 35, 37, 39, 40, 42, 43, 51, 55, 94 England Test team 57, 97 Enville, Staffordshire 27, 29, 30 , 31, 38 Era, The newspaper 16, 18, 43 Eton College 51, 89, 91 Everett House Hotel, New York 60-61 Every Boy’s Magazine 48 Exhibition of 1851, Great 24 Factory Act 1850 24 Fenner, F.P. 28 Felix, Nicholas 15, 24 Fitzgerald, R.A. 47, 83 Flintoff, Andrew 18 Freeman, George 18, 21, 57, 57 , 60, 66, 70, 72, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 84 Index A page number in bold indicates an illustration.