[1] England was born in 1856 in the Victorian goldfields town of Bendigo, when it was still called Sandhurst.
[2][3] In late 1879, England was working as a teller for the Bank of New Zealand in Wellington when he was selected to play for the provincial cricket team.
[9] The Zander family gave them one of their warehouses in King Street in the centre of Melbourne.
[10] In 1889 he was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Royal Humane Society of Australasia for rescuing a three-year-old boy from drowning in a flooded quarry.
[11] England died suddenly of a heart attack aboard the SS Pilbarra in April 1903, just after the ship entered Port Phillip as he was returning from a business trip to Sydney.