page_title: Studd brothers
section_title: The famous Ashes
hierarchical_section_title: Studd brothers / The famous Ashes
caption_attribution_description: The Ashes Urn
context_page_description: The Studd brothers, Sir John Edward Kynaston, George and Charles, were Victorian gentleman cricketers; they were educated at Eton and Cambridge. They all represented Eton in the Eton v Harrow annual needle match and represented Cambridge at cricket. These three brothers dominated the Cambridge cricket scene in the early 1880s.
  Kynaston, George and CT were still at Eton when their father, Edward Studd, became a born-again Christian and they were far from pleased by his efforts to interest them in the gospel. However, all three themselves converted when a visiting preacher went to stay with the Studd family during the summer holidays of 1878, an event that was to have a profound influence on the rest of their lives.
  The three boys were the oldest sons of their father's second wife, Dora Sophia née Thomas, and were brought up at Spratton Hall in Northamptonshire, Hallaton Hall in Leicestershire, and Tedworth House in Wiltshire. The family also had a residence in Hyde Park Gardens.
context_section_description: Charles played in the original test against Australia, where the Ashes were first named, and was one of the last two batsman in.
  The match was low scoring and had been affected by recent rain. Australia batted first and scored 63; England only managed 101 in reply. In their second innings the Australians scored 122, so on the second day, England needed only 85 to win. When England's last batsman went in the team needed only 10 runs to win, but the final batsman Edmund Peate scored only 2 before being bowled by Boyle. The astonished crowd fell silent, not believing that England could possibly have lost by 7 runs. When what had happened had sunk in, the crowd cheered the Australians.
  When Peate returned to the pavilion he was reprimanded by the captain WG Grace for not allowing his partner at the wicket, CT Studd, to get the runs. Despite Studd being one of the best batsman in England, Peate replied, "I had no confidence in Mr Studd, sir, so thought I had better do my best." By now the damage was done and The Sporting Times next headlined with the following famous phrase:
  IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE
  
  OF ENGLISH CRICKET
  
  WHICH DIED AT THE OVAL, 29th AUGUST, 1882,
  
  DEEPLY LAMENTED BY A LARGE CIRCLE OF
  
  SORROWING FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES
  
  R.I.P.
  
  N.B.-THE BODY WILL BE CREMATED AND THE
  
  ASHES TAKEN TO AUSTRALIA.
  Longer-lasting fame continues for the brothers in the form of the inscription on the Ashes' urn, which reads:
  When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn;
  
  Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return;
  
  The welkin will ring loud,
  
  The great crowd will feel proud,
  
  Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn;
  
  And the rest coming home with the urn.
caption: The Ashes urn
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