Lives in Cricket No 44 - LCH Palairet

country. He was also a member of the local Conservative Party and a member of the Somerset County Cricket Club, serving on both committees for many years. Henry would often take the chair at these meetings. Henry’s brother General Charles Palairet also served on the Somerset cricket committee for a while during the 1890s. Up to the age of 30 Henry moved around England fairly regularly, probably due to his work. He lived in Grange-over- Sands for several years until 1873 when he moved to Cattistock Lodge, Cattistock in west Dorset, in the upper reaches of the Frome Valley and eight miles north-west of the county town, Dorchester. In 1869 Henry married Elizabeth Ann Bigg (1844-79) and the couple had five children: Lionel Charles Hamilton (born 1870), Richard Cameron North (born 1871) and Evelyn Mary (born 1872) at Grange-over-Sands; and Edith Veronica (born 1874) at Cattistock and Rose Eleanor (born 1879) at Holcombe, Devon. French connections 9