His father, George Hearne, had played for Middlesex and became the groundsman at Kent's Private Banks Sports Ground in Catford in 1872.

[2] He worked with his father preparing cricket grounds during the winter and opened a sports outfitter's in Lewisham.

[5] He bowled left-arm fast-medium using a round arm action a moved the ball from the leg-side to the off-side, resulting in many dismissals caught in the slips.

[3] His top score of 126 was made at Gravesend that season against Middlesex and included a partnership of 226 runs with his brother Frank.

[3] He played in the Kent side that beat the touring Australians in 1884 and took eight wickets in an innings on multiple occasions.

[2] Hearne died at King's College Hospital at Denmark Hill in London in 1932 of bronchitis and influenza in 1932.