| In jüngster Zeit kamen ganz abweichende Informationen zu Miss
Jervis. So in einer Druckschrift über den urenglischen Sport Cricket
aus dem Jahr 2023 |
Was muss man lesen? Ihr Schwager John Francis Holcombe Read wurde
hier mit der oben erwähnten Mary Jervis verheiratet, die jedoch in
ganz anderen Kreisen verkehrte. |
Dre lange John Francis Holcombe Read in einer Karikatur der Zeitschift Vanity Fair als "Father Time" wegen seines langen Bartes und seiner Körpergröße. |
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Jervis Read
The background of the Read brothers was typical of the upper-middle-class elite that ran Essex County Cricket Club in its early days293. Their father. John Francis Holcombe Read, was born in Kingston Jamaica in 1823 but was only a clerk and his family are not on the splendid https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ website which list slave owners compensated for the loss of their ‘property’. Thus he did not inherit money tainted by slavery but did marry an heiress named Mary Jervis with whom he had ten children. The family grew up in Walthamstow at The Elms, in what is now the High Street, and in the 1860s the Reads took over The Chestnuts in Hoe Street from the Green family. Although JJ Read was then only a boy. CE Green could have known him from that period and it may be no coincidence that they came into office with Essex at the same time. JFH Read stood six feet two and his sons were all said to have been as tall, so it is not surprising that they showed athletic prowess. In addition to Ernest and John. Read’s second son Charles Stokes was a Cambridge rowing Blue who later rowed for Leander, the oldest and one of the most prestigious rowing clubs in the world294. According to his grandson. HV Jervis-Read. JFH Read won and lost three fortunes on the London Stock Exchange, of which his four surviving sons were all members. He was also a director of the Great Eastern Railway and of six other companies. He was a JP and a leading member of the small oligarchy that ran Walthamstow for many years. Gentlemen and players of Essex: the amateur and professional cricketers of Essex County Cricket Club, 1876-1979 by David Pracy first published edition January 2023 |
Übersetzung Jervis Read Die Herkunft der
Read-Brüder war typisch für die Elite der oberen Mittelschicht,
die den Essex County Cricket Club in seiner Anfangszeit
leitete293. |
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Arnold Read From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arnold Holcombe Read (24 January 1880 – 20 May 1957) was an English stockbroker and cricketer who played for Essex between 1904 and 1910. Read
was born at Snaresbrook in Essex in 1880 the son of Ernest and Jane (née Jervis) Read. His father was a stockbroker who had played for
Essex in the years before the side had first-class status,
whilst his uncle, John Read, had been one of the county's early
honorary secretaries. His grandfather John Francis Holcombe Read
had been born in Jamaica and married Mary Jervis, a wealthy heiress who inherited
money from slave plantations on the island from her father Edward Jervis Jervis, 2nd
Viscount St Vincent. Read grew up at Buckhurst Hill in the county and was educated at Winchester College.
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Auch die Wikipedia stimmt nicht, die obige Falschaussage einfach übernommen hat.Arnold Read Arnold Holcombe Read
(24. Januar 1880 – 20. Mai 1957) war ein englischer Börsenmakler
und Cricketspieler, der zwischen 1904 und 1910 für Essex
spielte.[1] Read wurde 1880 in Snaresbrook (Essex) als Sohn von
Ernest und Jane Read (geb. Jervis) geboren. Die Quelle ist hier
jeweils die oben zitierte Schrift von David Pracy aus dem Jahr
2023 |
Das ist nun wirklich nicht fein Mary Frances Elisabeth Jervis, die
ältere Schwester der Miss Jervis, einfach zu unterschlagen und eine
reiche Erbin an ihre Stelle zu setzen. Wir sehen: Märchen gedeihen überall, in Langenhagen, in der Wikipedia und in englischen Sportpublikationen. |