Brief profile of E.W.HIrst by Don Ambrose

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Player:

EW Hirst

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HIRST, Ernest William
Amateur.
Born at New House, Deighton, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, 27th February 1855.
Died at Evershot, Dorchester, Dorset, 24th October 1933.
He was the son of William Edwards Hirst, J.P., of Lascelles Hall, Huddersfield. He learnt his cricket with the Lascelles Hall Club and played there from 1873 to 1888. He was selected to play for Yorkshire twice during 1881. He also played for the Huddersfield Club for many years and was captain there at one time. He moved to Dorset in 1898, and resided at Evershot for the rest of his life.
In the 1881 Census he is resident with his parents at Lascelles Hall, Lepton, Yorkshire. His father is William Edward (sic) Hirst, aged 60, a woollen manufacturer, and his mother is Hannah, aged 50. He is also described as a woollen manufacturer, aged 26 and unmarried, as are his three younger brothers, Edward Theodore aged 23, clerk Oxford (he played for Oxford University and Yorkshire), Francis Joseph aged 20 an undergraduate at Oxford, and Philip Leslie aged 17 a scholar. There were five domestic servants.
The 1901 Census shows him living at Summer Lodge, 30 High Street, Evershot, Dorset, aged 46, a retired woollen manufacturer. His wife is Katherine Mary, aged 28 born at Netherton, Yorkshire and their son John Anthony Edward aged 2 born at Evershot. There is a visitor Phillip Walter Beresford Hennisey a 30 year old army officer, and four domestic servants.

(Article: Copyright © 2003 Don Ambrose)