A. Thomson said of him: "Ernest was one of that devoted band of August schoolmasters – happily they survive to-day – who pack their boys off home and add a kind of academic gaiety to the month's cricket."
Thomson commented on Ernest: "He was part of an elite group of educators – happily, they endure to this day – who allowed their pupils to return home during the summer and brought a sense of academic fun to the month's cricket games."