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1 Fry, p. 45.

2 Fry, p. 50.

3 Myers, p. 23.

4 As Fry rose through the school, he had his own fags. They included the future Lord Kindersley and Jimmy Finch who, like C.B., became involved in county cricket, as a committee member at Leicestershire. (Another future England captain had an even more distinguished fag: at Harrow, Archie MacLaren’s chores were done by the young Winston Churchill.)

5 The Man and His Methods referred to a unnerving incident that occurred many years later, when the book’s author was renting the flat, in Brighton, which Fry used whenever he played in home games for Sussex. When Myers stayed there for the first time, he was astonished to see, on the bedroom wall, a shadow which created an exact profile of C.B. Fry. ‘The cause,’ he wrote, ‘was apparent enough. It was a reflection from the silk shade that covered the electric light. The strange thing was that the folds should have presented this extraordinary likeness.’ (p. 21).

6 Quoted by Myers, p. 24.

7 According to Teichmann-Deville, Forman used both an overcoat and a chair in his attempts to get C.B. jumping higher. (See B. Thomas, p. 96.) Moreover, a profile of Fry in Titbits, on 24 June 1899, suggested that, from the day that Forman became his housemaster, he became C.B.’s ‘best friend and mentor in all matters athletic.’

8 Intriguingly, Ford was the great-great-uncle of John Barclay, who went on to captain Sussex (like Fry) in the 1980s.

9 One of the Uppingham players, George Hemingway, had already earned a place in cricket history. According to his Wisden obituary: ‘when playing a single-wicket match against his two brothers, he hit the ball into a field of nettles; the fieldsmen quarrelled as to who should recover it, and during the argument the batsman ran about 250.’ (1908 edition, p. 141.)

10 Shortly before his death Fry recalled that Uppingham had, in effect, been captained – from beyond the boundary – by the former Surrey batsman, H.H. Stephenson, captain of the first English cricket team to tour Australia (in 1861–62). (See The Cricketer Spring Annual, 1956 edition, p. 81.)

11 Cochrane, p. 88.

12 Myers, p. 31.

13 Roberts, p. 29.

14 Isis, 18 November 1893.