Breif profile of Frederic Isherwood by Don Ambrose

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Player:

F Isherwood

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ISHERWOOD, Frederic
Professional.
Born at Over Darwen, Lancashire, 30th August 1858.
Died at Blackley, Manchester, Lancashire, 20th February 1927.
After a game for Twenty-two Lancashire Colts against the Lancashire Eleven at Old Trafford on the 6th and 7th June, when he scored 19 and 20, he was asked to play against Kent, at Old Trafford, starting on the 9th June. He scored a duck. That was the limit to his first-class career – but he kept the letter from the Lancashire Secretary inviting him to play for the rest of his life as a valued possession. He worked at the Manchester Co-operative Warehouse Society Drapery department at Longsight, Manchester and played his cricket for the works team. He was not really a professional, but merely accepted payment in lieu of wages from the Co-op.
A Frederic Isherwood, aged 23, born Farnworth, Lancashire, a spindle maker, appears in the 1881 Census, living at 72 Manchester Road, Oldham, staying with his widowed mother, Mary, aged 50. He is married but there is no record of his wife. His older brother, John T., aged 28, a mechanic, is also present. There is one domestic servant. Is this the right man?

(Article: Copyright © 2003 Don Ambrose)