Stanley Christopherson was the best of the ten Christopherson brothers who played the sport of 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...

 as an amateur in Kent in the late 19th century. Christopherson was a good fast-medium bowler, and played first-class cricket

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 for Kent County Cricket Club

Kent County Cricket Club

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 between 1883

1883 English cricket season

-Events:30 January. England won the deciding match of the scheduled three-Test series in Melbourne . Some ladies burned the bails and placed the resultant ashes in a small urn. This was presented to England’s captain, Ivo Bligh, who had promised to "recover those ashes"...

 and 1888

1888 English cricket season

The 12th Test Series between England and Australia took place in the 1888 English cricket season. England retained the Ashes with a 2-1 win after losing the First Test....

, although he came back to play three matches in 1890

1890 English cricket season

The 1890 English cricket season was the first year the County Championship was officially held, which Surrey won after winning nine out of fourteen games...

. He was also selected to play for England

English cricket team

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 for the Second Test match

Test cricket

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 against Australia

Australian cricket team

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 at Lord's in 1884

1884 English cricket season

The 1884 English cricket season saw Fred Spofforth, an overseas bowler, take the most wickets-Leading batsmen:Lord Harris was the leading runscorer with 1417 @ 33.73-External sources:* -Annual reviews:...

, but was not selected again. From 1886

1886 English cricket season

-Events:Somerset did not play any other first-class counties and dropped out of the Championship until 1891.Hampshire ceased to be a first-class county after years of difficult circumstances and poor results. They did play matches against Surrey and Sussex in 1886 but these matches are not...

 he was hampered by an arm injury and this effectively ended his first-class cricket in 1887.

In 1883 he had his best return of eight wickets for 41 runs conceded, and his reputation was such that he was selected to play for the Gentlemen against the Players

Gentlemen v Players

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 and the Gentlemen against the Australians the next year. He continued to get good returns until his arm injury severely hampered his playing ability.

Christopherson was President of the Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

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 between 1939

1939 English cricket season

The 1939 English cricket season was the last before the Second World War and it was not until 1946 that first-class cricket could resume in England on a normal basis....

 and 1946

1946 English cricket season

The 1946 English cricket season was the first full season of first-class cricket to be played in England after World War II. It featured a three-match Test series between England and India, which was arranged at short notice...

, the longest period anyone has held the office. He was reputed to have rarely missed a Committee meeting, and always to have played the game at some level throughout his life. From 1943 to 1945 he was also temporary chairman of the Midland Bank

Midland Bank

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, which is now part of HSBC

HSBC

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