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(born
10 February 1847 in
Blackburn, Lancashire , died
17 December 1925 in
Nantwich, Cheshire ), better known as '''Monkey Hornby''', or to his players as '''The Boss''' was the
England Cricket Captain who lost the Test match at home in
1882 against the
Australian Cricket Team that gave rise to
The Ashes .
The
Test Match in
1882 was a one-off game played at
The Oval in
London ,
England , and the
English Cricket Team lost it to Australia. In response, the
Sporting Times printed the following "obituary" to English cricket:
:''In Affectionate Remembrance of ENGLISH CRICKET, which died at the Oval on 29th AUGUST, 1882, Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances R.I.P.
:N.B. - The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.''
Monkey Hornby later captained England in one more Test, when he stood in for
Lord Harris in the first Test of
1884 . In
1882 he also captained England at rugby, making him one of only two men to have captained England in both these sports, the other being
Andrew Stoddart .
His lack of stature and excess of energy earned him the nickname "Monkey".
Together with his fellow
Lancashire and England batsman
Dick Barlow , Hornby was immortalised in one of the best known of all
Cricket Poems , ''At Lord's'' by
Francis Thompson which contains the famous lines:
:As the run stealers flicker to and fro,
::To and fro:
:O my Hornby and my Barlow long ago !
