Brief profile of V.P.F.A.Royle by Don Ambrose

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Player:

VPFA Royle

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ROYLE, Vernon Peter Fanshawe Archer.
Amateur.
Born at Brooklands, Cheshire, 29th January, 1854.
Died at Stanmore Park, Middlesex, 21st May 1929.
Educated at Rossall School, where he was a member of the cricket eleven 1870-72, being captain in 1872, and of the football eleven in 1871. He went up to Brasenose College, Oxford, and was a member of the University eleven 1875-76, winning his blue both years. He played for Cheshire 1873-76 but made his first-class debut for Lancashire in 1873. He was to play 102 first-class appearances between then and 1891, 74 of them for Lancashire, and one of them being a Test Match during his tour to Australia in 1878/9. He was an assistant master at Elstree School 1879-99, became ordained in 1881 from which year he was also curate of Aldenham, Watford, Hertfordshire until 1885. He was headmaster at Elstree 1900-01 and then moved to the Stanmore Park School, Middlesex, as headmaster.
At the time of the 1881 Census he was resident at Elstree School, Edgware, Middlesex. The headmaster, the Rev. Lancelot Sanderson, aged 43, born Lancaster, his wife Katherine H., aged 38, born Richmond, Surrey, and their family of four sons and four daughters are present, as are the brothers Tylecote, Charles B.L. aged 33, and Henry G. aged 27, are both schoolmasters, and Edward F.S. aged 31, is a visitor, an instructor in Mathematics. (Edward and Henry both played first-class cricket) Vernon R.F.A. Royle, unmarried, aged 27, an Oxford B.A. is a schoolmaster. There are a couple of domestic servants and a shoal of boarding scholars.

(Article: Copyright © 2003 Don Ambrose)