17 Facts About Patsy Hendren

Elias Henry "Patsy" Hendren was an English first-class cricketer, active 1907 to 1937, who played for Middlesex and England.

Patsy Hendren had a concurrent career as a footballer and had a long tenure with Brentford FC Patsy Hendren was born in Turnham Green and died in Tooting Bec.

Patsy Hendren has the third highest first-class run aggregate of 57,611 runs, and his total of 170 centuries ranks second only to Hobbs, who was a personal friend.

Patsy Hendren was a noted wit, a keen practical joker and had a talent for mimicry.

Patsy Hendren joined the Lord's groundstaff at the age of 16, and made his first-class debut for Middlesex in 1907, though the game was abandoned after the first day when spectators caused damage to the pitch and he did not get to bat.

Patsy Hendren played nine games the following year and gradually established himself in the team, but it was 1911 before he made his first hundred, and until World War I forced the suspension of the County Championship he never managed to average 40 in a season.

Patsy Hendren joined the 1st Sportsmens' Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers as a private in September 1914, before being transferred to work at a munitions factory in Royal Leamington Spa.

Patsy Hendren rejoined the Royal Fusiliers towards the end of the war.

Patsy Hendren scored two further Test fifties in the series and retained his place for the 1921 series against the same opponents, but failed completely in his four innings, totalling only 17 runs.

Patsy Hendren made six consecutive Test 50s a new England record, since equalled by Ted Dexter, Ken Barrington and Alastair Cook.

Patsy Hendren did appear for "England Past and Present" against Sir PF Warner's XI at Folkestone in September 1938, aged 49, but was caught by the 20-year-old Denis Compton for a duck in what was to be his last first-class innings.

Patsy Hendren's health failed and he died in hospital from Alzheimer's disease at the Whittington Hospital Tooting Bec, London, at the age of 73.

Patsy Hendren began his football career with local team Sandersons in 1906, before having spells with Queens Park Rangers and Brentford in the Southern League.

Patsy Hendren was sold by Brentford to Manchester City in 1908 and appeared twice for them in the Football League First Division before moving on to Coventry City of the Southern League in October 1909.

Patsy Hendren was posthumously inducted into the Brentford Hall of Fame in 2015.

Patsy Hendren made one appearance for England in the unofficial Victory International against Wales in October 1919.

Patsy's brother Denis Hendren played 9 first-class games for Middlesex.