Career
The Master Control Console team featured Ranjitsinhji and Fred Spofforth. His father was vicar of Malton and East. B. Firth also played for the Yorkshire Gentlemen, topping their batting averages in 1895. In 1897, he assisted the XVIII of Bedale against York Cricket Club.
He himself was ordained in 1886, and lived in Malton before going to South Africa.
Firth died in July 1905, in Matjiesfontein, Cape Province, South Africa, aged 42.