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Spofforth's Emigration — The Demon Settles in Derbyshire, 1886-1890
Australia / Derbyshire (later)
1888-06-01
In September 1886, on his fifth tour of England, Fred 'The Demon' Spofforth married Phillis Marsh Cadman at Breadsall, Derbyshire. By 1888 the couple had returned to England permanently; Spofforth took a position in his father-in-law's tea importing business and began a second life as a Derbyshire-domiciled cricketer. He played for Derbyshire from 1889, captained them in 1890, and lived out the rest of his life in England, dying at Long Ditton in 1926 — the most famous Australian cricketer ever to settle in the country he had so often demolished.
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