Frank Henry Farrands was a first class cricketer and test match umpire http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/13002.html. A right-handed roundarm fast bowler, he took 128 wickets for Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of...

 (1868–1880), Nottinghamshire (1871) and others in just 30 matches at an average of 15. He umpired in first class cricket from 1868 to 1900, standing in 7 Ashes tests on the Australian tours of 1884, 1886 and 1888 http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/29/29350/Umpire_in_Test_Matches.html. He died in 1916 in Sutton-in-Ashfield

Sutton-in-Ashfield

Sutton-in-Ashfield is a market town in the Ashfield district of Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of around 43,000. It is situated four miles west of Mansfield, close to the Derbyshire border.-Geography:...

, Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...

, the town of his birth in 1835.