Charles Bain [SEP] date of death
Charles Bain
Charles Bain (15 March 1913 – 8 April 2007) was a West Indian cricket umpire. He stood in one Test match, West Indies vs. Australia, in 1965.
See also.
- List of Test cricket umpires
, Sir William Thomson, Sir William Siemens, Latimer Clark and others obtained a Civil List pension for Bain from Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone of £80 per year.
Death and legacy.
Bain was buried in the Auld Aisle Cemetery, Kirkintilloch. It was restored in 1959. The headstone had a fallacious date of death (1876) which was later corrected to 1877. JD Wetherspoons pub in Wick, close to where Alexander Bain served his apprenticeship, is now named 'The Alexander Bain' after the inventor.