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A. B. TANCRED AND HIS BROTHERS

the name Tancred in that branch of the family. He was buried close to Claude Tancred in the Church Street cemetery in Pretoria. As the South African War approached, the spectators and players at the Berea Park Ground could reflect on the performances of, among others, the two resident Tancred brothers who in different seasons had scored centuries in each innings of a match. At the outbreak of war, the family left Pretoria and did not return. South Africa's 'W. G. Grace' played very little cricket thereafter, his reputation resting on the scores and records he had achieved as a younger man and the high regard in which he had been held by his fellow players and spectators.

Another daughter was born in 1899, when a pregnant Adeline and daughter Norah fleeing from Pretoria reached Stellenberg, the Feltham family home in Cape Town. 42 Youngest daughter Helen wa.s born after the war in 1903. When the war ended, 'AB' settled on the Rand but now in Johannesburg as a partner in the firm Bell and Tancred before going into business on his own account. In 1904, the third brother, Vincent Maximillian, committed suicide. 43 Shortly before his early death, 'AB' moved to Salisbury to practise law in partnership with his school contemporary Charles Coghlan. In 1911, 'AB' died in Cape Town, en route to England for treatment, A. B. Tancred was one of the group of advocates and attorneys who conducted the defence of members of the Reform Committee Left to right, standing: Attorney Nel, Attorney H. Scholtz, Attorney A. B. Tancred and Advocate B. Sauer Seated on chairs: Advocate E. P. Solomon, Advocate J. Rose-Innes, QC, MLA (who held a brief for the British government), and Advocate A. Muller Seated on steps: Dr Lorentz, Attorney Dr Jongh, and Advocate (later Sir John) J. Wessels, leader of the defence team