Career
Archer also played one Test match for Lord Hawke"s XI England on their 1898-1899 tour to South Africa: this was his first appearance in first-class cricket. He also played for Incogniti (1897-1900), and I Zingari (1903). Although Archer was a wicket-keeper, he did not keep wicket or bowl in the Test match in which he played, and he batted at number 10.
Overall, Archer had an undistinguished career: he did not even get into the first XI at his school at Haileybury.
Archer also turned out for the Marylebone Cricket Club and Shropshire, a minor county.