Frank Farrands

Farrand centre back row pictured with the 1888 Australia national cricket team

Frank Henry Farrands was a first class cricketer and test match umpire. A right-handed roundarm fast bowler, he took 128 wickets for Marylebone Cricket Club (1868–1880), Nottinghamshire (1871) and others in just 30 matches at an average of 15. He umpired in first class cricket from 1868 to 1900, standing in 7 Ashes tests on the Australian tours of 1884, 1886 and 1888. He died in 1916 in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, the town of his birth in 1835.