Lives in Cricket No 8 - Ernest Hayes

was in this year that schoolboy Henry Cotton, later to achieve world-wide fame in another sport, was scorer for the club. On 28 June, aged 46, at the Hammersmith Register Office, Hayes had married. His bride was Lily Mignon, divorcée of Edward Mignon, who had played 140 first-class matches for Middlesex and a few for MCC before the war. She came with a ready-made family, Edward, known as Ted, aged 12, and George who was five at the time. Ted did not emulate either his father or his step-father on the first-class scene, but went on to play club cricket, not at Honor Oak where he would doubtless have suffered from comparison with Ernest, but at neighbouring Addiscombe where he was a member until well after the Second World War. Hayes and his new wife and step-sons were able to enjoy a honeymoon in Bournemouth which he commemorated with family photographs in his scrapbooks. An Officer and a Gentleman – and a Bridegroom 98 A new life. Mr and Mrs Ernest Hayes, with her boys Ted and George, on their honeymoon at Bournemouth in July, 1923.