Brief profile of F.S.Head by Don Ambrose

Player:

HEAD, Francis Somerville.
Amateur.
Born at Kensington, London, 30th June 1846.
Died at Bushey Hall, Hertfordshire, 2nd April 1941.
He was the son of Sir Francis Head, Baronet, of Warwickshire. He was educated at Marlborough College, where he was a member of the cricket eleven in 1864. He was living in Manchester for two years 1868-69 and while there played in six matches for Lancashire. Returning to the London area he played just one match for the M.C.C. in 1881. He was a J.P. for Herefordshire.
The 1881 Census finds him a boarder at 75 Warwick Street, Hanover Square, London, the home of William Postlethwaite a 55 year old builder employing 14 men, and his wife Dorothy, aged 53. They have two sons, William aged 18 a carpenter and John aged 15 a brass worker. Mary Brinkworth a 64 year old butlers wife is a visitor and Frances (sic) Head, unmarried, aged 34, a director of an engineering works, is a boarder. Norman W.S.Borolby, a 36 year old solicitor, is a lodger. There is one domestic servant.