Eustace Shine

Eustace Beverley Shine CB (9 July 1873 – 11 November 1952) was an English civil servant and amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1895 and 1899.

Early life and cricket

Shine was born on 9 July 1873 at Port of Spain at Trinidad where his father was a merchant.[1] He was educated at Edward VI School in Saffron Walden and Selwyn College, Cambridge.[2][3][4] He made his first-class cricket debut for the university side in 1895, before going on to play 22 matches for the side. He won cricket Blues in 1896 and 1897 and made his debut for Kent County Cricket Club in 1896. Shine played 23 matches for Kent, all but one of them during the 1896 and 1897 seasons, and also appeared in one first-class match for MCC against his University side. After the 1897 season he played in only one match, a single County Championship appearance for Kent against Lancashire at Canterbury in 1899. He was awarded his Kent county cap in 1896.[5][6][7]

In the 1896 University Match Shine deliberately bowled three balls "straight to the boundary" in order to add to Oxford's total and avoid the need for Cambridge to enforce the follow-on. At the time it was compulsory to enforce the follow-on. Cambridge's Cyril Wells had done the same three years earlier. The Laws of Cricket were changed in 1900 to allow the option of enforcing the follow-on to rest with the team ahead.[2][5][8][9]

Predominantly a bowler, Shine took a total of 165 first-class wickets in his 46 first-class matches. He took 10 wickets in a match twice and had best innings bowling figures of 7/65.[1][5] His highest score batting was 49 runs, made in a partnership of 149 with Frank Marchant playing for Kent against Warwickshire at Tonbridge in 1897.[2]

Civil service career

In 1900 he became an inspector at the Board of Agriculture and served as a private secretary to two Presidents of the Board between 1905 and 1911 when he was appointed head of the livestock branch. From 1921 until he retired in 1933 he was establishment officer at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries serving as an Assistant Secretary.[3] Shine was made Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1927 Birthday Honours.[10][11]

Family and later life

Shine married Mary Venables in 1900. The couple had a son. After his first wife died, he married Ida Cornwall in 1912 with whom he had three daughters.[3] He died on 11 November 1952 at his home in New Milton, Hampshire aged 79.[1]

References
  1. Eustace Shine, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  2. Shine, Mr Eustace Beverly CB, Obituaries in 1952, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1953. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  3. Mr E.B. Shine, The Times, 13 November 1952, p.8.
  4. Jeater D (2020) County Cricket: Sundry Extras (second edition), p.149. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-22.)
  5. Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp.488–489. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  6. Eustace Shine, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-04-16. (subscription required)
  7. Kent County Cricket Club - Capped Male Players, Kent County Cricket Club. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  8. Lynch S (2013) That can't be legal, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  9. Cyril Wells, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  10. Supplement to the London Gazette, 3 June 1927, p.3606. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  11. Order Of The Bath, The Times, 3 June 1927, p.17.
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