Player: | WF Forbes |
FORBES, Walter Francis.
Amatuer.
Born at Malvern Link, Worcestershire, 20th January 1858.
Died at Marylebone, London, 29th March 1933.
The fourth son of Colonel J.Forbes, of the Coldstream Guards, he was educated at Eton, where he was a member of the cricket eleven 1873-76 and captain in 1876. In 1876 he threw the cricket ball 132 yards 1 foot. His cricket was played for the Yorkshire Gentlemen and I Zingari and he only played in eleven first-class matches. He became a land agent and in 1885 he became steward to the Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood. He worked in Matabeleland for a time but later returned to England.
At the time of the 1881 Census he was staying at The Hall, Gumley, Leicester, the home of his cousins, Thomas C.D.Whitmore, J.P., aged 41, and his wife Louisa M.E., aged 39. There is a son Francis H.D.C. aged 8, two daughters Mildred Louisa J. aged 12, and Ellise M.A. aged 10, and two sisters Cecil Elizah Whitmore aged 29 and Evelyn O.Whitmore aged 29. Walter Forbes, unmarried and aged 23 is described as a land agent (house). There is a governess and eighteen domestic servants.
(Article: Copyright © 2003 Don Ambrose)
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