HUMPHREY

Thomas . b. Mitcham, Surrey 16 Jany. 1839; one of the best batsmen of his day, especially good at cutting, made 1000 runs during a season several times; played for Surrey many years; a first-cla fieldsman especially at long-leg and long-on; had a benefit at Kenning ton Oval 26–28 July 1876. d. the Asylum, Brook wood, Surrey 3 Sep. 1878. bur. Woking cemet. 9 Sep. Illust. sp. and dram. news, v , 401, 402, 430 (1876), portrait ; Bell’s Life in London 7 Sep. 1878 pp. 3, 4, and 14 Sep. p. 4; W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 329–30.