An English cricket team led by Lord Hawke toured North America in September and October 1894 and two of its matches are considered to have been first-class.
[1] Hillyard, McAlpine and Wright had been part of Lord Hawke's previous team to North America in 1891–92.
Hawke's team left London on 8 September 1894, sailing from Southampton that day.
[14] At the time of the departure, the team was expected to be playing matches in "New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston" and to be returning home by 1 October.
[15] The tour was in fact extended by a couple of weeks with a visit to Canada, but a report in England indicates that it was not entirely a success: "The English cricketers in America are losing their power to attract, there is a decrease in the number of spectators at their matches with their Yankee opponents, their doings appear to excite less interest, and their victories are not so much taken to heart as they used to be," said a note in the Cheltenham Chronicle newspaper.