Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

was Lord Hawke, determined on proper discipline within the side, who brought Peate’s career to a premature end. There is no record of Carter’s view but he is likely to have rather sadly supported the Yorkshire captain. Lord Hawke As recounted in Chapter four, Carter may first have seen, and played against, Hawke in a match at Harewood House in August 1878, and thereafter from 1879 onwards the two met many times, usually when both were playing for Yorkshire Gentlemen. In one match that they played together for the Yorkshire Gentlemen side in 1880, Hawke scored 61 against the Royal Artillery at Woolwich. In 1881 Hawke was then living in the family home at Wighill Park, near Tadcaster, and between 10 June and 29 August he and Carter played in six consecutive games for the Gentlemen that included another southern tour, and, no doubt, more conviviality. Amongst the scores made by Hawke and witnessed by Carter (who may well have been the Gentlemen’s captain in some games) were innings of 34, 50, and 36 not out. That was enough for Carter to decide that Hawke should be invited to play in the Scarborough Festival of 1881 against both MCC and I Zingari. It may also have helped that both Carter and Hawke were in Scarborough, and playing for Yorkshire Gentlemen against Scarborough on the day before the MCC match Hawke in his autobiography Recollections and Reminiscences wrote: “I have always regarded the Rev. E.S.Carter as my father in Yorkshire cricket. He had watched me score at York and it was he who brought me into the county side when he arranged the teams for the Scarborough Festival of 1882 [actually 1881]. My debut was against MCC on the present ground … It cannot be said that I was inordinately successful for I only contributed 4 and 0, each time bowled by Barnes.” Carter in his conversation with Old Ebor for Talks with Old Yorkshire Cricketers said: Peate, Hawke, Committee 86