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England
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Eng
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Dick Barlow
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Right-hand bat
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Left-arm medium pace
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17
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591
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2273
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0/2
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62
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2,456
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34
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2255
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3
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0
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7/40
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14/0
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351
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11,217
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2061
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4/39
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117
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43,468
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950
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1452
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66
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14
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9/39
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268/0
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31 December
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1881
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1 March
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1887
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(born
28 May 1851 in Barrow Bridge,
Bolton ,
Lancashire ,
England ; died
31 July 1919 in Stanley Park,
Blackpool , Lancashire, England) was a
Cricket er who played for
Lancashire and
England . Barlow will be best remembered for his batting partnership with
AN "Monkey" Hornby , which was immortalised in nostalgic poetry by
Francis Thompson .
Barlow was engrained in cricket from an early age, and went on to play for Lancashire for 20 years and continued to play at lower levels into his sixties. Before this he had left school aged fourteen to work in a printing office as an apprentice
Compositor . He was later a moulder with Dobson & Barlow in Bolton, and then in
1865 he moved to Derbyshire when his father got work at the Staveley Iron Works. It was for Staveley Iron Works Cricket Club that Barlow first played cricket, becoming a cricket professional with Farsley in Leeds in
1871 , which was the year in which he first played for Lancashire. From
1873 to
1877 he was the professional fro Saltaire in
Bradford .
Barlow was 5ft 8 inches tall and weighed approximately eleven stone. He was strong and sturdily built. Barlow was known for his defensive batting, which made it hard to dismiss him, and which earned him the nickname Stonewaller. On one occasion he scored no runs in a partnership of 45 with AN Hornby, who was dismissed for 44. Barlow was also a good bowler with much variation.
Barlow is immortalised in one of the best-known pieces of
Cricket Poetry , a poem called "At
Lord's " by
Francis Thompson . In it Thompson remembers back watching Barlow and
Monkey Hornby play for Lancashire through rose-tinted glasses. The first verse of the poem, which is repeated as the final verse is the best known:
::It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk,
:::Though my own red roses there may blow;
::It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk,
:::Though the red roses crest the caps, I know.
::For the field is full of shades as I near a shadowy coast,
::And a ghostly batsman plays to the bowling of a ghost,
::And I look through my tears on a soundless-clapping host
:::As the run-stealers flicker to and fro,
::::To and fro:
:::Oh my Hornby and my Barlow long ago!
Barlow took part in the original Ashes match and is commemorated by the poem inscribed on the side of the urn:
When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn;
The welkin will ring loud,
The great crowd will feel proud,
Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn;
And the rest coming home with the urn.
Barlow played seven times for England against Australia in England: in the match which gave rise to and
Arthur Shrewsbury in
1881 /
1882 , with the Hon.
Ivo Bligh in
1882 /
3 , and again with Shaw and Shrewsbury in
1886 /
1887 . He played in every match of all three tours.
Near the end of his life Barlow was quoted in the ''Manchester Guardian'': "I don't think any cricketer has enjoyed his cricketing career better than I have done, and if I had my time to come over again I should certainly be what I have been all my life - a professional cricketer".
Barlow had a wife, Harriet, and a daughter, Eliza.
