Lives in Cricket No 38 - Lionel Robinson

92 sons and a daughter. Lionel’s older daughter, Viola, gave birth to two sons at Old Buckenham Hall. Ieuan Evans, born 1919, died at 17. The second son was Humphrey Evans, born two months after Lionel’s death. In 1952, Humphrey married Cherry Drummond, later to become Lady Strange, and in 1966 he adopted the Drummond surname. Humphrey, also awarded a Military Cross in the Second World War, died in 2009. Eldest son, Adam, is the 17th Baron Strange whilst another son, also called Humphrey, works in the City. Their sister, Catherine Drummond-Herdman, is the owner of Megginch Castle in Perthshire. Thus, although Lionel himself behaved far too much like ‘new money’ to be accepted by the English aristocracy, his descendants, through both daughters, have met with no such rebuffs; this would doubtless have pleased their Papa immensely. The South Norfolk Cricket Club Mention was made in chapter five of the foundation of the South Norfolk Cricket Club by, amongst others, local schoolteacher Len Hart. The club started relatively slowly with only eight fixtures arranged in 1923, increasing to eleven in the1924 season and at least 30 in 1925. As well as playing a fairly full season of fixtures in Norfolk in that year, home and away, the club made a tour of Derbyshire in which they played six matches in six consecutive days. The highlight of the season was the hosting at Old Buckenham Hall of a fixture against Norfolk Club and Ground, in which the county players Geoffrey Stevens (with an unbeaten 82) and Walter The death of Lionel Robinson and the fate of his cricket ground Everard Gates, bon viveur cricketer and record-breaking politician. (Lafayette-National Portrait Gallery)