Edward Evershed (3 November 1867 – 18 February 1957) was an English

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between 1888 and 1898.

Life

Evershed was born in Stapenhill, now part of

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(then in Derbyshire), the son of Sydney Evershed the brewer and MP for Burton. In 1888, Evershed played non first-class matches for an

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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

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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
/ref> 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

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. His brothers,

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, Wallis, and Frank, and cousin Geoffrey Bell, all played first-class cricket, while William Evershed also played first-class cricket in first half of the 19th century.

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