Henry Stanley (cricketer)

Henry Thomas Stanley (20 August 1873 – 16 September 1900) was an English cricketer who played 63 first-class matches for Somerset County Cricket Club and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1894 and 1899. He was the older son of the wealthy Edward Stanley MP and heir to the Quantock Lodge Estate in Somerset. He gained the rank of Lieutenant in the service of the West Somerset Yeoman Cavalry, and was killed in action during the Second Boer War, at Hekpoort, South Africa in 1900.^[1]

Henry Stanley

Personal information
Full name	Henry Thomas Stanley
Born	(1873-08-20)20 August 1873 Belgravia, London, England
Died	16 September 1900(1900-09-16) (aged 27) Hekpoort, Transvaal Colony
Batting	Right-handed
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1894–1899	Somerset
1897–1898	Marylebone Cricket Club
FC debut	24 May 1894 Somerset v Oxford University
Last FC	20 July 1899 Somerset v Hampshire
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 63 Runs scored 1,691 Batting average 14.96 100s/50s 1/4 Top score 127 Balls bowled 262 Wickets 9 Bowling average 27.77 5 wickets in innings 0 10 wickets in match 0 Best bowling 2/11 Catches/stumpings 27/–
Source: CricketArchive, 2 May 2010

An account of his death and burial in South Africa is given in A Yeoman's Letters by P. T. Ross.^[2] He has a large granite memorial cross in the churchyard at Over Stowey, Somerset, inscribed:

NOT HERE HE LIES NOT HERE
BUT FAR AWAY IN OTHER EARTH
BY OTHER GRASS OERSPREAD
YET BY HIS HOME
THIS CROSS SHALL STAND & SAY
HE LIVES AMONG HIS OWN

References

1. Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 1102.
2. Ross, P. T. (1901). A Yeoman's Letters. Kent: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton.

External links

• Henry Stanley at ESPNcricinfo
• A Yeoman's Letters, by P. T. Ross at The Project Gutenberg