Brief profile of H.C.R.John
by Don Ambrose
JOHN, Henry Celestine Robert.
Amateur.
Born at Agra, North West Province, India, 26th May 1862.
Died at Oxford, 24th June 1941.
Educated at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, he played his only first-class match in this country at the age of nineteen, for Lancashire in 1881. He returned to India and in 1894 his address is given as c/o William Watson & Co., Bunder Road, Karachi, India. He played in five first-class matches for the Europeans, in India.
In the 1881 Census he appears as a scholar at Stonyhurst College.
(Article: Copyright © 2003 Don Ambrose)