Trevor Branston

George Trevor Branston (3 September 1884 – 12 August 1969) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire and Oxford University from 1903 to 1913.

Trevor Branston

Personal information
Full name	George Trevor Branston
Born	(1884-09-03)3 September 1884 Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England
Died	12 August 1969(1969-08-12) (aged 84) Regent's Park, London, England
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium-pace
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1903 to 1913	Nottinghamshire
1904 to 1906	Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 89 Runs scored 3301 Batting average 25.78 100s/50s 3/15 Top score 194 not out Balls bowled Wickets 153 Bowling average 28.12 5 wickets in innings 6 10 wickets in match 0 Best bowling 6/66 Catches/stumpings 96/0
Source: Cricinfo, 2 January 2019

Early life and education

Branston was born at Newark-on-Trent, the second son of George Henry Branston, of The Friary, Newark, Nottinghamshire, a wealthy maltster, and his wife Gwynedd, daughter of Adam Eyton, JP, of Plas Llanerch-y-Mor, Flintshire. On George Henry Branston's purchase of Branston, Lincolnshire, in 1897, the family attained the status of landed gentry; by 1952, Trevor Branston was the head of this family.[1][2]

Branston attended Charterhouse School in Surrey before going up to Hertford College, Oxford.[3] An all rounder, he won cricket Blues in 1904, 1905 and 1906, and played for Nottinghamshire during the summer holidays as an amateur.[3]

Cricket career

Branston was one of the leading players on the all-amateur MCC tour of New Zealand in 1906–07: he scored 119, one of only two centuries by the team, against Canterbury, and in all matches took 36 first-class wickets at an average of 18.69.[4] He played in both of the representative matches against New Zealand, top-scoring in the first innings of the second match with 28.[5] He also toured with MCC to North America in 1907 and Egypt in 1909.[6]

Playing for the Gentlemen of England against Cambridge University in 1908, he took three wickets in each innings and scored 58 and 194 not out, his highest first-class score, to take Gentlemen of England to 401 for 6 and a four-wicket victory.[7] His best first-class bowling figures were 6 for 66, which helped Oxford to a 50-run victory over Kent in 1905.[8]

Personal life

In 1912, Branston married Ethel May, daughter of J. E. Anderton, MBE, MD, of New Mills, Derbyshire. They had one child, a daughter, Audrey (born 1913), who married Major Ernest Nugent Oldrey, OBE, of the Royal Artillery, and had a son, Timothy Nugent Oldrey. The Branston family of Branston was extinct at Trevor Branston's death as both he and his only brother, Henry Eyton Branston (1878–1934), of The Old Hall, Balderton, Newark-on-Trent, had died without male issue.[1][9]

The family lived both at Branston and at 31, St James Close, Regent's Park, NW8.[1]

References

1. Burke's Landed Gentry, seventeenth edition, ed. L. G. Pine, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1952, p. 249
2. http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/monographs/biographies1901/obituary.htm
3. Wisden 1970, p. 1017.
4. "First-class Bowling for Marylebone Cricket Club". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
5. Don Neely & Richard Payne, Men in White: The History of New Zealand International Cricket, 1894–1985, Moa, Auckland, 1986, pp. 48–50.
6. "Miscellaneous Matches played by Trevor Branston". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
7. "Gentlemen of England v Cambridge University 1908". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
8. "Oxford University v Kent 1905". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
9. Burke's Family Index, ed. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1976, p. 18

External links

• Trevor Branston at ESPNcricinfo
• Trevor Branston at CricketArchive (subscription required)