Lives in Cricket No 38 - Lionel Robinson

32 and ‘A Norfolk XI’ were defeated by ten runs and 199 runs respectively. Unfortunately it is exceptionally hard to follow the cricketing doings of Robinson’s elevens in this year. The impression given (probably correctly) is one of a cricketing fanatic with (much) more money than sense and an ego sufficiently large that none of his cronies were able to channel his spending into a rational programme. The reader is referred to the Appendix for a consideration of the total lack of logic in the nomenclature of the elevens put into the field by Robinson but an attempt to find any logic in the coming and going of players is equally doomed to failure. It seems over 80 cricketers turned out in 1911. One of the few patterns that one can observe is that the strengths of the various sides varied widely. Robinson comes to Norfolk 1911 Census - Lionel Robinson resident at his house in London’s Mayfair. Lionel’s London house at the height of his financial powers was 70 South Audley Street in Mayfair. (Tom Walshe)