Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

116 Acknowledgements I am indebted for information about the Reverend E.S.Carter’s school days to Mr R.W.Muttit for an extract from the Durham School Register, and to Emma Goodrum, the very helpful archivist at Worcester College, Oxford, for useful material about Carter’s university courses and the Worcester College Boat Club. Colin Harris of the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford alerted me to Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools , and thus to the 1866 vignette portraits of Carter and his Oxford colleagues. My friend Nigel Starck put me in touch with Ray Webster in Melbourne who then shared with me his draft entry for Carter in the Dictionary of Australian First-Class Cricketers . Brian Sanderson of the Yorkshire CCC Archives Committee provided the photograph of Carter’s Australasian bat now retained in the Yorkshire CCC Museum. One of those photographs is now on the front cover. Brian Sanderson also provided the group photo of an 1877 Yorkshire team. Dr Jonathan Oates, archivist of the Ealing Local History Centre was exceptional in his interest and production of material relating to Carter’s time at Ealing. A past photograph of Christ Church, Ealing, is reproduced with permission of the Centre. Niamh Delaney of Lambeth Palace library told me where to find ordination papers at the London Metropolitan Archives and I am grateful to the staff at those archives, as I am to archivists at the Guildhall Library in London, the York Minster Archives, the Borthwick Institute also in York, the West Yorkshire Archives at Morley, and the East Riding Archives at Beverley. Robert Curphey, archivist at the MCC Library kindly produced books and records that I might not otherwise have seen. Dennis Silk and Harry Steel of I Zingari helped with sources for I Zingari history. Malcolm Watson gave me a copy of the history of the Yorkshire Gentlemen’s Cricket Club , and important statistical information about Carter’s cricket for the club. The photograph of Lord Hawke’s gathering at Wighill Park is reproduced courtesy of The Tatler. Gillian Waters of the City of York Council greatly helped by her research on Carter’s civic positions in York. Michael Burdass, with his long association with Thwing Church, was generous with his time and found Carter’s grave for me. It was a delight to meet Mr and Mrs Burdass and to enjoy their hospitality. Jeremy Lonsdale, who wrote the splendid A Game Taken Seriously, The Foundations of Yorkshire’s Cricketing Power was most kind in giving time to read a draft of my manuscript and to make valuable suggestions that I am sure have better illustrated the social context between amateurs and professionals. David Pracy, Paul Dyson and Mick Pope all generously responded when I sought their assistance. I am most grateful to them. Kit Bartlett has kindly proof read the manuscript and I thank him and editor Mark Rowe and all others involved in the final production and printing of this Life in Cricket.