Lives in Cricket No 45 - Brief Candles 2

100 that he would be expected to give it away. That he did is evidence of a caring and responsible clergyman - though the fact that he mentioned it in the deanery magazine suggests that he was also one who wanted to be sure that his generosity did not go unnoticed. His spiritual nature is emphasised by the fact that in 1915 he was invited to give the Palm Sunday sermon in Hereford Cathedral. Sadly no record of the sermon seems to have survived, but from his style of writing on spiritual matters in the deanery magazine we can be confident that it was very sober, very biblical - and possibly just a little bit dull. But that too was the way in those days. In his earlier years at Tarrington, Alfred did his rounds of the parish - visiting the sick and the bereaved, for example - on horseback. But around 1911 he succumbed to the motoring bug. Whether justified or not, John Watkins conjured up for me the delightful image of him toot-tooting his way around the lanes of Herefordshire like an ecclesiastical Mr Toad. Horses nevertheless remained a major part of his life. Since at least the turn of the century he had successfully bred polo ponies, winning prizes as far afield as London and Liverpool in 1901; he was still winning prizes in 1911. His success brought wider respect too: in 1903 he was a judge at the London Spring Show of the Polo Pony Society, and he was still judging at major shows in London and Bristol in 1913. But without doubt the most important aspect of his life, alongside the church, was his family. In November 1893, at the age of 33, he married The oldest of them all An enthusiastic horseman, Green-Price was famous locally for doing his rounds of the parish on his cob Bridget.