Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

18 to 1868 before the perhaps inevitable housing development intervened, and Edmund’s subsequent game against Middlesex involved playing against the Marquis of Queensberry, the Earl of Coventry and Viscount Massereene. It is a slight curiosity that Edmund Carter never became an MCC member though his brother Arthur did so. When in later years Lord Hawke joined the Lord’s hierarchy there must have been every opportunity to become a member. The match at Lord’s against MCC in which Carter took nine for 36 in one MCC innings was such a low scoring affair that though all 40 wickets fell, neither side at any time made a change of bowling. Six other Gentlemen of Yorkshire matches are recorded in CricketArchive for later that summer, but Edmund appeared in none of them, and similar patterns occurred in 1868 and 1869. So we do not know what Edmund was doing in those summer months, but surely he will have been playing for a Malton club and a variety of other sides. 1867 For his third summer at Oxford Edmund held his place in the Varsity side with a prior miscellany of known matches at the Magdalen and Christchurch grounds against E.L.Fellowes’ XI, Christ Church College, Southgate, Perambulators, Free Foresters, and Gentlemen of Buckinghamshire, and then against MCC at Lord’s. He took 12 wickets in the match against Free Foresters and four for 58 against MCC. He did top score with 26 in the University first innings against Cambridge, but his side still lost by five wickets in that Varsity match. He also scored 105 not out for his college against Lincoln College, Oxford. 1868 A similar pattern of recorded games to 1867 followed in this season which included the last game that Southgate hosted against a university side to be treated as a first-class fixture. Southgate in all played eight first-class games and Edmund Carter played in three of them. He also scored his second century Family