William Smith-Masters

[2] Scoring 7 runs batting at number 8, his wicket was taken by Henry Tate caught behind by Lionel Hervey-Bathurst, whom he ran out in Hampshire's second innings.

[3] A right-handed batsman, Smith-Masters was an amateur gentleman cricketer and prodigious run-scorer for North Kent, hitting at least three recorded centuries.

[4] The elder son of the Revd Allan Smith-Masters (16 January 1820 – 8 October 1875) and Rebecca née Randall (died 1907), she was the daughter of the Ven.

His father, Allan Cowburn later Smith-Masters, played first-class cricket for Oxford University[10] before assuming by Royal Licence, on 28 August 1862, the surname and arms of Smith-Masters, in right of his mother Katharine Cowburn née Masters Smith (1794-1873), eldest sister of William Masters Smith MP, High Sheriff of Kent.

His other brother-in-law, Sir Fleetwood Edwards, Keeper of the Privy Purse to Queen Victoria, also played first-class cricket in one match for I Zingari.