Henry Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield he presented a donation of £150 to the New South Wales Cricket Association which was used to purchase a plate and establish the competition known as the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. Lord Sheffield died in Beaulieu, France, in April 1909, aged 77. Rumoured to be homosexual, he remained unmarried, and on his death the earldom became extinct. However, he was succeeded in his junior title of Baron Sheffield, which had a special remainder that allowed it to be passed through female lines, by his first cousin once removed, Edward Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley.
The Cricketers of My Time now rich literary history. Writing in 1957, John Arlott described it as "still the finest study of cricket and cricketers ever written". "The Cricketers of My Time" was first published in serial form by a weekly London newspaper called "The Town" in 1832. The following year, the series with some modifications appeared as the second part of an instructional book entitled "The Young Cricketer's Tutor", which was also the title of the book's first part. There was a third part called "A Few Memoranda Respecting the Progress of Cricket" and that is generally referred to as the "Memoranda". The first