E.M. Grace — The Coroner Who Was England's Best Bat Before His Brother, 1860s
Gloucestershire and All-England representative sides
1862-06-01
Edward Mills Grace — E.M. — the elder of the famous Grace cricketing brothers, was in the early 1860s the most talked-about young batsman in England, predating his younger brother W.G.'s dominance by several years. A Gloucestershire man who worked as a country coroner, E.M. Grace combined an astonishing eye with an unorthodox but devastatingly effective style, and his all-round performances in the late 1850s and early 1860s marked him as a coming great before W.G. had played his first first-class match.