#grace family

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GF Grace's Death — Two Weeks After His Only Test, 1880

England v Australia

1880-09-22

George Frederick 'Fred' Grace, the youngest of the cricketing Grace brothers, played his only Test at The Oval in September 1880, took the most famous deep catch of the 19th century, and was dead of pneumonia two weeks later, aged 29. His joint appearance with WG and EM is the only time three brothers have played together in a Test; the family lost their youngest within a fortnight of the historic match.

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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.

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