- Object numberTN.2009.1967
- TitleEngland's Twelve Champion Cricketers
- Date1859-09-07 - 1859-09-07 1859-10-02 - 1859-10-02
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- Production notesPhotographer T H Hennah
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- DescriptionBlack and white, landscape, group portrait, mounted on card. Photographed on board ship at Liverpool, September 7th, 1859. Two rows of gentlemen dressed in cricket uniform, shirts and caps, ship’s rigging in background. BACK ROW: Carpenter, Caffyn, Lockyer, Wisden, Stephenson, G. Parr, Grundy, Caesar, Hayward, Jackson. FRONT ROW: Diver, John Lillywhite. A dedication below the picture reads: ‘This Group of England's Twelve Champion Cricketers. Photographed on the morning of their departure for America, is respectfully dedicated by their obedient Servant W. H. Mason'. Possible Original of TN.2008.284
- Display captionEngland’s Twelve Champion Cricketers Photograph by W.H. Mason TN.2009.1967 George Parr’s team was the first to tour overseas, visiting Canada and the USA in 1859. The tour was organized by a Canadian-based Englishman, W.P. Pickering, who acquired sponsorship worth around £1,300. Each of the twelve players earned around £90 for the two month tour.
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- ExhibitionsMuseum Permanent Display : MCC Museum
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