Edward Evershed (3 November 1867 – 18 February 1957) was an English
cricket
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er who played for
Derbyshire
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between 1888 and 1898.
Life
Evershed was born in
Stapenhill
Stapenhill is a suburban village and civil parish in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire in the UK. It was a small village owned by Nigel of Stafford as far back as 1086, however, this ancient parish area has long since been surrounded by new hous ...
, now part of
Burton-upon-Trent
Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. In 2011, it had a population of 72,299. The d ...
,
Staffordshire (then in Derbyshire), the son of
Sydney Evershed
Sir Sydney Herbert Evershed (13 January 1861 – 7 March 1937) was an English brewer and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1880 to 1901 and was a long-serving club captain from 1891 to 1898.
Evershed was born in Stap ...
the brewer and
MP for
Burton
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** Burton's, Abergavenny, a shop built for the company in 1937
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. In 1888, Evershed played non first-class matches for an
Oxford University
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team and for
Marylebone Cricket Club
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(MCC) and then regularly for Derbyshire while they were without first-class status until 1893.
Evershed made one first-class appearance for Derbyshire in 1898, as wicketkeeper against Warwickshire. During the season a number of players kept wicket instead of the regular
William Storer
William Storer (25 January 1867 – 28 February 1912) was an English footballer and a cricketer who played six Tests from 1897 to 1899, played first-class cricket for Derbyshire from 1887 to 1905 and played football for Derby County. He score ...
who still took part in the matches. Evershed batted during the first innings, but did not make a contribution during the second, as the match petered out to a draw.
Evershed was a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper, and made one run in the first-class game.
Edward Evershed at Cricket Archive, accessed 16 September 2008
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Evershed was the co-founder, with Francis Martin Tomkinson, of Evershed and Tomkinson, the Birmingham firm of solicitors, in 1914. His name has been retained during the course of numerous mergers which have led to the firm of Evershed Sutherland, one of the largest law firms in the world. The extraordinary story of the development of the firm is described in A Global Journey, published by the firm in 2017.
Evershed died in Handsworth Wood
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Located within the metropolitan county of the West Midlands since 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, it was previously a part of the county of S ...
. His brothers, Sydney, Wallis
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**Wallis, Duchess of Windsor
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* Wallis (Ambleston), a hamlet within the parish of Ambleston in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, United Kingdom
* ...
, and Frank
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* Frank (surname)
* Franks (surname)
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Curr ...
, and cousin Geoffrey Bell
Geoffrey L Bell, who was born in 1939, is an economist, banker, and Executive Secretary of the Washington-based Group of Thirty, a council of private and central bankers.
Born in Grimsby, he was educated at the London School of Economics, before ...
, all played first-class cricket, while William Evershed also played first-class cricket in first half of the 19th century.
References
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1867 births
1957 deaths
English cricketers
Derbyshire cricketers