Talk:Harry Trott

Of African descent?

See the first comment on this article. I am aware his father came from Antigua but not that he was was the son of a former slave (and that Harry and Albert are therefore grandsons of a former slave). Any idea how this could be confirmed? -- Mattinbgn\^talk 01:30, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

See this book - needs to be incorporated into the article --

ramblings

• "After he was discharged, eventually he returned to cricket" - redundancies (after/eventually)
  • Not really. He did not immediately return to cricket but waited until he had been sent to Bendigo and had been there for some time. Perhaps, "After he was discharged, in time he returned to cricket" Your thoughts? -- Mattinbgn\talk 12:14, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
    • (from FAC) Yep, that's fine. giggy _(:O) 07:48, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
      • Thanks, changed
• "Fond of hats, Trott was seldom seen without one" - image caption = nice!

Now, taking a random section and looking at prose...

• ""just mad enough to be put under restraint", that is worse rather than better." - I think the comma should be a semi colon or dash, and there should be a comma after "that is"

• Agreed, fixed

• "The cricket writer Gideon Haigh" - could do without the "the"

• Agreed, fixed

• "he was allowed newspapers reporting the details of Darling's Australian side in England; this left Trott unmoved." - change Trott to him?

• Agreed, fixed

As you can see, this is really minor stuff. Overall it's a great read. Nice work. giggy _(:O) 07:48, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

• Thank you very much -- Mattinbgn\^talk 10:36, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Stevens and Stephens

I see in the lead that his full name was "George Henry Stevens Trott", and I assume that Stevens was a secondary surname because, well, it's not used as a given name too often. But then I see in Early Life that his mother was Mary-Ann Stephens. So am I just assuming wrongly and his middle name was, coincidentally, Stevens ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.243.165.189 (talk) 12:46, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

"Stevens" was definitely his middle name, and it's possible it was just a coincidence, but your explanation (that it was his mother's maiden name) does seem likely. Stevens was born in 1866, which was still a time when record-keeping was done by hand, so it's possible that the registrar made a spelling mistake and Trott never bothered to correct it (or only found out about it at a later date). IgnorantArmies (talk) 14:20, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Very interesting. I am aware of such practices from the famous recent Drumpf/Trump meme, what I didn't know was that it still happened in the second half of the 19th century. Well, we do come to the Article of the Day to learn things! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.243.165.189 (talk) 17:26, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

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