Ernest Falck
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Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England
 Falck in 1936 | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ernest Dyson Falck | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 October 1907 Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 19 February 1982 (aged 74) Bridport, Dorset, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1935–1936 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 17 July 1935 Somerset v Worcestershire | ||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 2 June 1936 Somerset v Gloucestershire | ||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 21 January 2011 | |||||||||||||||
Ernest Dyson Falck (21 October 1907 – 19 February 1982) was an English amateur cricketer who played for Somerset County Cricket Club in the 1930s. A prolific all-rounder in club cricket, first in his native Yorkshire, and later for Wells City in Somerset, Falck was selected by Somerset to play in four first-class cricket matches for the county across 1935 and 1936. Although he was Somerset's highest-scoring batsman on a difficult pitch on his debut, he never replicated his club success with Somerset, and ended his county cricket career with 74 runs at an average of 10.57, having never bowled for the county.
He had a successful career in the family business producing sausage casings, and later diversifying into drug production as a sub-contractor to Glaxo. Falck was an all-round sportsman, having also played for Wells City F.C., and taking up golf in later life. He retired to Bridport in Dorset, where he died in 1982.
Ernest Dyson Falck was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire on 21 October 1907, the eighth child of John Henry Falck and Emily (née Brook).[1] He grew up in Huddersfield, and at the age of 14, left school and joined his father's business, J. H. Falck and Sons, which produced sausage casings at a factory in the city.[2] During his early twenties, he fractured his skull when he fell off a ladder, leaving him bald for the rest of his life. He married Margery Gledhill in 1932, and the couple had two children, Garry and Neil. In late 1933, he expanded the business into south-west England, acquiring a factory on South Street in Wells, Somerset, where he moved.[3] During the Second World War, Falck was fined for buying black market bacon and ham, but the business was successful, and after the war sub-contracted to Glaxo in the production of the anti-coagulant drug heparin. Falck passed the business on to his sons upon his retirement, and moved to Bridport in Dorset, where he died on 19 February 1982.[4]