Harry Stirling Crawfurd Everard
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Harry Stirling Crawfurd Everard (1848–1909) was an English writer on golf.
Life
Born at Claybrook House, Leicestershire, on 30 January 1848, he was only son of Henry Everard of Gosberton, near Spalding, Lincolnshire, by his wife Helen Maitland. daughter by his second wife of Captain William Stirling of Milton and Castlemilk, Lanarkshire. After education at Eton College (1862–6) he matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 23 May 1866, graduating B.A. in 1871.{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Everard, Harry Stirling Crawfurd|volume=1}}
A student at the Inner Temple in 1867, Everard was not called to the bar. He settled at St Andrews, to which he was attracted by the golf course. He enjoyed success at golf, winning in the competitions of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club Silver Medal (second prize at the spring meeting) in 1888, the Calcutta cup in 1888 and 1890, and the Silver Cross (the first prize) in 1891. He was successful in competitions at Carnoustie and Montrose. He was also a cricketer, tennis player, pedestrian and swimmer.{{cite ODNB|id=33048|first=J. R.|last=Lowerson|title=Everard, Harry Stirling Crawfurd}}
Everard died, after a short illness, on 15 May 1909 at St. Andrews.
Works
Everard known as a writer on golf, contributing to the Scots Observer and to the National Observer (under William Ernest Henley's editorship), to The Spectator, Saturday Review, and many specialist golfing periodicals. He published Golf in Theory and Practice (1897; 3rd edit. 1898); A History of the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews from 1754–1900 (1907),{{cite book|author=Everard, H. S. C.|title=A History of the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews from 1754–1900|year=1907|publisher=William Blackwood and Sons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ajUPAQAAMAAJ}}{{cite journal|journal=The Athenaeum|date=September 21, 1907|issue=4169|title=Review of A History of the Royal and Ancient Club of St. Andrews, from 1754–1900 by H. S. C. Everard|pages=327–328|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__I_PcOFSw8C&pg=PA327}} and he wrote on "Some Celebrated Golfers" for the Badminton Library golf manual (1890; 5th edit. 1895).
Family
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Category:People educated at Eton College
Category:Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Category:19th-century English writers
Category:People from Leicestershire