 Trott spent his entire working life in the Post Office , employed as a postman and mail sorter . He married Violet Hodson in Fitzroy on 17 February 1890 and the couple had one son . In 1911 , Trott became a selector for the Victorian team when Hugh Trumble resigned to take the secretaryship of the Melbourne Cricket Club . Trott 's high standing in the cricket community saw the other candidate for the position withdraw rather than oppose him . In 1912 , Trott took the side of the " Big Six " , the Australian cricketers opposed to the newly formed Australian Board of Control for International Cricket 's attempt to wrest control of touring Australian sides from the players . At an " indignation meeting " at the Athenaeum Hall on Collins Street in Melbourne , the Argus reported Trott as saying that " to say he was disgusted with the Board of Control was to put it mildly " and that " [ h ] e would like to shake hands with the six men who had stood out against the Board " . 
