Charles Ernest Nornable was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er who played for Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

 in 1909.

Nornable was born in Norton, Derbyshire.

Nornable played just one game for the Derbyshire team in the 1909 season

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1909

Derbyshire Country Cricket Club in 1909 was the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for thirty eight years. It was their fifteenth season in the County Championship and they won two matches to finish fifteenth in the Championship table.-1909 season:Derbyshire played...

 which was against Sussex

Sussex County Cricket Club

Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Sussex. The club was founded as a successor to Brighton Cricket Club which was a representative of the county of Sussex as a...

 in May. He was a right-arm medium-fast bowler, and in the first innings, he took three wickets, including that of Test cricketer Harry Butt

Harry Butt

Henry Rigden Butt was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Sussex County Cricket Club and the Marylebone Cricket Club between 1890 and 1912. Butt also played three Test matches for England on their tour to South Africa in 1895-96...

. In the second innings he took two more wickets. He was a right-handed batsman and scored 8 runs.

Nornable died in Sheffield

Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...

 at the age of 83. His son Gordon Nornable

Gordon Nornable

Gordon Nornable MC won the Military Cross and Croix de Guerre in 1944 fighting with the French Maquis in eastern France.Nornable was born at Woodseats, Sheffield, the son of Charles Ernest Nornable...

 was decorated for underground service with the French resistance during World War II

World War II

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External links

• Charles Nornable at Cricket Archive