Lives in Cricket No 24 - Edgar Willsher

109 Index Uppingham School 88 Walker, Thomas 34 Walker, V.E. 39, 40, 42, 55 Waterman, Augustus 77 Wenman, E.G. 10-11, 15, 32 West Kent CC 14 West Kent Wanderers CC 93 West Malling, Kent 12 West Wickham, Kent 28 White, F.S. 76 White Hart Inn, Chatham 14 Willes, John 34, 35 Willow CC, New York 64 Wills, T.W. 48 Willsher, Alice (daughter) 88, 97 Willsher (née Winser), Charlotte (mother) 7, 8 Willsher, Charlotte jun (sister) 12 Willsher, Edgar benefit matches 86-87 best first-class bowling return 33 birth 7-8 Boston match 71-72 bowling style 18-23 bowls under-arm 39 business fails 93 captain of North American tour 54 , 55, 57 childhood/education 10 clashes within the CFFS committee 84 club cricket 13-14 coaching jobs 88 debate over his action 32-38 dies of liver cancer 94 Enville Hall professional 29, 30, 30 , 31 first-class debut 16, 16 first game after no-ball incident 45 first season with AEE 27 formation of new Kent club 32 funeral 95 gravestone 95, 96 hat-trick 53 highest first-class score 46 involvement in North-South schism 50 journey across Atlantic 59-60 last match as player 94 leading first-class wicket-taker 28 manager of English Eleven 51 marriage 31 Montreal match 69-70 moves to Goudhurst and Maidstone 12 New York matches 62-63, 64-67 no-ball incident 39-44, 41 over-arm legalised 47 Oxford University professional 26 Philadelphian matches 75-81 playing debut 12 plays for UEE 25 Prince’s Ground professional 89-91 probate granted 97 secretary of USEE 49 selected for aborted trip to Australia 85 sets up as cricket outfitter 92 single-wicket cricket 14 umpiring 93-94 Willsher, Edgar jun (son) 88, 97 Willsher, Edith (daughter) 88, 97 Willsher, Ernest (son) 33, 88, 97 Willsher, George (brother) 10 Willsher, John (father) 7, 8 Willsher, John Edgar (son) 31, 53 Willsher, Robert (cousin) 31 Willsher (née Johnston), Sarah (wife) 31, 88 Willsher, Stephen (grandfather) 7, 8 Willsher, William 10, 12, 13, 88 Wisden, John 21, 24, 25, 27, 29, 36, 50, 53, 56 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 25, 49, 51, 52, 87, 89, 94 Wister family (Philadelphia) 74, 75 Wootton, George 56 Worcestershire cricket team 29 Wright, George 64, 72 Wright, Samuel 64 , 65 Wright, W.H. 64, 64 , 65, 67, 72 Yardley, William 87 Yorkshire CCC 21, 56, 58, 94 Young America CC, Philadelphia 56, 63, 75, 79