Other matches involved many of the same players, but with the teams divided along different lines for a little variety: that year there were two matches between the Fast Bowlers and Slow Bowlers (ending in one win apiece). But after the accident, I was happy just to get to the next day. There is one further notable cricketing connection in the family: as well as being an ancestor of Calthorpe and HDG, John Leveson-Gower was the grandfather of John Frederick Sackville, the third Duke of Dorset — both a keen player and the leading patron of cricket in the late eighteenth century (he was also the British ambassador to France and used his influence to promote the game there, once playing a match on the Champs-Elysees; however, his attempt at organising what would have been the first international cricket tour had to be aborted due to the outbreak of the French Revolution). I suppose in a way I knew my mother better than my father Tom, who was a more remote figure. [9] In 1956, Blofeld scored 104 not out for a Public Schools team against the Combined Services,[10] and he was given the Cricket Society's award for the most promising young player of the season. Extraordinary. I had been very good at cricket and that was taken away from me. In 1841, Grace was not yet born and the idea of a County Championship was still decades away, but there were First-Class matches played between the few existing county sides (Sussex, Kent and Nottinghamshire), as well as the MCC, Cambridge University and the annual Gentlemen vs Players match. He also recalled turning down Boycott’s request for a reference letter (to say that he was not violent) for his retrial in a French court after he was convicted of beating up his girlfriend. I love it.
John Blofeld married his first cousin, Sarah Blofeld; their respective fathers, John and Thomas, were brothers. Playing as an opening batsman, Blofeld top scored for his side with 60.[14].
In 1959, Blofeld played in half of the University fixtures, including the Varsity Match against Oxford,[13] where he won his Blue "as an opening batsman of sorts... the worst Blue awarded since the war" according to Blofeld himself. Together with TMS producer Peter Baxter he tours with the theatrical show Memories of Test Match Special from 2013 on. Noël Coward was present, which started another friendship.
Good lord, no.”, Commentating on five-day cricket matches is an endurance – “You get a glimpse of eternity in a Test match,” he says. Blofeld has written a partly autobiographical book entitled My Dear Old Thing: Talking Cricket. Whether the Rev. Sky Sports Cricket (1994)as Himself - Commentator, Mr Countdown: A Tribute to Richard Whiteley (2005)as Himself, An Evening with Blowers: Henry Blofeld, the Voice of Cricket, Live (2008)as Actor, Your email address will not be published. He did not cover the Ashes series in Australia during 2010–11 but returned for the Indian tour of England in Summer 2011. I was living in Norfolk at my family home and was at school at Eton. I had my accident in early June and went up to Cambridge that October. Instead, on an entirely different branch of the family tree, the Visitation records the marriage of Sir Henry Calthorpe, the Queen’s Solicitor-General in the 1630s, to Dorothy Humphrey, along with a note that from them “descends the present noble representative of the family”. Through her, Calthorpe is related to HDG “Shrimp” Leveson Gower (although HDG himself was listed on scorecards as having a two word surname with no hyphen, his ancestors did use one). ©2020 The Big Issue Company Ltd, 113-115 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, London, N4 3HH. My mother Grizel, pictured with me here, was the greatest possible fun. This picture of us was taken on a trip to Barbados, As told to Roz Lewis. I came from a very privileged background.
[28], Blofeld celebrated his 70th birthday by hosting an evening show in front of 2000 paying "guests" at the Royal Albert Hall, with appearances on stage by friends such as TMS commentator Jonathan Agnew, who narrated the event live, West Indian commentator Tony Cozier, TV personality Stephen Fry, cricket journalist John Woodcock, TV celebrity Christine Hamilton and his elder brother, former High Court Judge Sir John Blofeld. My first hundred at Lords, my first game for Norfolk when I hit 76. Getting a Blue in my second year did a huge amount for me. After my accident, it was very much like finding yourself at 53-6. “It’s not something I’d have said,” says Blofeld. With the series now balanced at 1-1 going into the final game, the Lord’s stage is set for a fitting climax – not just for the Wisden Trophy, but for the last match of the 77-year-old’s career with TMS. [24], Outside cricket, Blofeld's favourite hobby is "drinking wine", followed by "eating food" and "going out." Henry Blofeld and Graeme Swann tour the UK with The Great British Spin Off from 26 September. I was just about good enough to get into a rather poor Cambridge side, as this picture shows. All rights reserved. “I’m going to live in Menorca quite soon,” he says. I suppose that is the equivalent of, when you have made 100 at Lords, having Denis Compton – which I did have – walk up from first slip and shake me by the hand!
One generation further back, and the link between the two surnames is at last established: the parents of John and Thomas were Thomas Blofeld and Catherine Calthorpe. And I was very conscious of wanting to be an adult, not wanting to be someone who is still getting over a bad injury. “That’s stuff and nonsense… We live in a defensive age. But I don’t do it as well as I used to, I don’t think, and I’ve been doing it a long time – in fact, I think longer than anyone else has ever done it before. Henry Blofeld has said he is leaving the country - claiming that London has become "horribly violent". Required fields are marked *. We divorced seven years later and I think she had the rough end of the stick. His wife, Dorothy Vernon-Harcourt, had one brother, William; through him, Calthorpe had one nephew and one niece by marriage. John senior’s father Martin Calthorpe became a barrister at Grey’s Inn shortly after the accession of James I, and his grandfather, Sir Martin Calthorpe, was appointed Lord Mayor of London in 1588, and died during his term of office. It’ll come, it’ll go,” he says, slouching as far back as he can in his leather armchair – before suggesting his career might not be coming to a complete end.
19:30 IST | 14:00 GMT, 10 Nov, 2020 Henry Blofeld’s grandparents were married in 1902 — the same year Victor Trumper scored a century before lunch in a Test, Fred Tate dropped one, and Gilbert Jessop’s whirlwind fourth innings century won one — and in the church of St Marylebone, a stone’s throw away from Lord’s. Blofeld, who captained Eton at cricket but had to give up a promising playing career after being hit by a bus while on his bicycle, admits that his accent might have been a “handicap” to a broadcasting career had he been starting out now, as it “might not be so publicly acceptable. Brian was the champion leg puller in the commentary box, but he had quite a bit of help from David Lloyd – or Bumble, as he is widely known. “I don’t have a like or a dislike for helicopters, pigeons or seagulls – if they’re there, they’re part of the picture, therefore I describe them, just like the girl in the red dress [sitting in the crowd] at square leg. I was a very difficult chap. That controlled my life. Brain bruising is a funny thing. The 21st century researcher, to whom the connection might not be quite so obvious, must pick up the thread from Barbara Calthorpe, wife of Sir Henry Gough.
In a funny way I was glad it was all over. He had a double heart bypass operation in 1999 after being diagnosed with angina and was given the last rites after he nearly died in intensive care following the operation. Blofeld missed the 2009 home test series against South Africa but returned for the 2010 home series against Pakistan.
David always played pranks but we were all part of the furniture of TMS, so we were very good friends, 2001: The Queen usually came to Lord’s when there was a Test match on, and on this occasion she brought us a cake from the Palace kitchen. Sir James’s cricketing descendants may have looked askance on his support of Cromwell, a notoriously joyless man who, during his tenure as Lord Protector, attempted to clamp down on sports, drinking, gambling, music, theatre and any other activity from which his subjects might conceivably have derived entertainment. When the Nevada result will be out, why it's taken so long and how many votes it has, Who is winning 2020 US election? He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2003 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to sports broadcasting. They both enjoy cricket, and Boris also has some idea how to play. I went through quite a lot of mental agony trying to persuade myself I was someone I wasn’t. It was all complete nonsense but I fell for it completely. [23], In November 2003, Blofeld was the castaway on Desert Island Discs with his favourite selection being the classic Brian Johnston and Jonathan Agnew TMS exchange "Getting your leg over". She was the third child and only daughter of Reynolds Calthorpe, by his second wife Barbara Yelverton. On Geoffrey Boycott’s latest controversy: “It’s not something I’d have said. I did the commentary and they asked me to interview Boris. [32], Blofeld has been married three times and divorced twice. Blofeld lives in Chelsea. Good heavens, no. Because at the age of 17, I had a very nasty accident – knocked off my bike by a bus. I was born on a very big estate in Norfolk, with a big family house, although we didn’t live in it then. Blofeld has been a regular commentator for TMS since 1972, except for a period at BSkyB from 1991 to 1994.
John appears on earlier censuses with his parents Thomas Calthorpe Blofeld and Fanny Elizabeth (nee Partridge); Thomas was a local magistrate, a profession which was to reappear in the family three generations later: Blowers’s brother is Sir John Blofeld, a former High Court judge whose career included overturning on appeal the convictions of three men who had already served a decade in jail for murder. I would defend him on that one.”, As for Blofeld himself, many would describe him as the perfect English gentleman.
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