Lives in Cricket No 42 - Frank and George Mann

38 chairman A.J.Webbe, 20 with a reply by Warner himself. The toast to the future of Middlesex and cricket was proposed by Percy de Paravicini: 21 the respondent, significantly, was Frank Mann. 20 Webbe, born at Bethnal Green in 1855, was educated at Harrow School and Oxford University, had been Middlesex captain from 1885 to 1898. In 247 matches for the county he scored 9,404 runs at 24.96, took 68 wickets at 29.20 and held 150 catches, mostly at mid off. He had played one Test for England. It was said that he was ‘free to give practically all his time to cricket’. 21 P.J.de Paravicini, a scion of the Italian aristocracy, born at Kensington in 1852, was educated at Eton College and Cambridge University. In 62 matches for Middlesex between 1881 and 1892, he scored 1,306 runs at 14.67, took 10 wickets at 35.60 and held 29 catches. He had played football for Old Etonians in two FA Cup finals and for England: he had been appointed MVO in 1908 and later CVO for services to hospitals. Warner and his ‘Sandbank’