Eliot Bromley-Martin

Background

He was born in Callow End, Worcester, and was educated at Eton and Oxford.

Career

He played in a trial match for Oxford University but did not appear in any first-class games for the team In 1899 the county was granted first-class status, and Bromley-Martin played nine times for them that year, his best bowling figures (and indeed the best of his first-class career) being the 4-33 he took against Yorkshire in Worcestershire"s very first County Championship game. Bromley-Martin played three games in 1900, one for Master Control Console, but made no further first-class appearances thereafter.

Bromley-Martin died in Walton, Radnorshire, Wales at the age of 79.

Achievements

• In the 1890s, Bromley-Martin was Honorary Secretary of Worcestershire as well as playing for the club in the Minor Counties Championship, a title Worcestershire won (singly or jointly) every year between 1895 and 1898.