match in February 1899 in the 1898–99 South African cricket season, representing Transvaal against Lord Hawke's touring English side but was again unavailable for the Test series due to business concerns. Later life During the Second Boer War, Tancred worked for British intelligence and then as Legal Adviser to the Military Governor in Bloemfontein, necessitating his absence from the 1901 South African tour of England, which it had been thought he would captain. Following the end of the war, Tancred moved to Salisbury to open a law firm in partnership with his fellow St Aidan's alumni (and future Premier of Southern Rhodesia) Sir Charles Coghlan. While in Salisbury in 1911, Tancred became seriously ill and was brought to Cape Town en route to England to receive specialist treatment but, after a deterioration in his condition, underwent emergency surgery and died in Cape Town the day his ship left for England. Survived by his wife and three daughters (a son died young), Tancred had become known as the "W. G. Grace of South Africa" for his cricketing exploits and Wisden Cricketers' Almanack called him "undoubtedly the finest batsman in South Africa". References Sources Hall, BT & Schulze, H (2000) "The Cricketing Brothers Tancred, Part 1", The Cricket Statistician, No. 111, Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians, Orpington, Kent. See also No. 112 and 129. Murray, B & Vahed, G (2009) Empire and Cricket: The South African Experience 1884–1914, chapter 6. Schulze, H (1999) South Africa's Cricketing Lawyers, chapter 2. 1865 births 1911 deaths Griqualand West cricketers South Africa Test cricketers South African cricketers Gauteng cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Cricketers from Port Elizabeth