Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
Held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
10th, 11th & 12th April 2026
Lot 54
Estimate: £200/300
Hammer: £280
John Shuter. Kent, Surrey and England 1874-1909. Two page handwritten letter in ink, dated 26th March 1889, from Shuter to a Miss Macdonald who is organising a fundraising bazaar. Shuter writes ‘I fear it is quite impossible to obtain notes from or even signatures of the Surrey Eleven at the present time’ but offers to try to obtain them later ‘if May is not too late’, and asks her to send him a reminder nearer the time ‘addressed to Kennington Oval, London’. He also refers her to ‘E. Hawkins & Co, Kings Road, Brighton- Photographers [who] will supply you with photographs of any County team and... particular players’. Very nicely signed ‘John Shuter’. Very good condition.
Shuter captained Surrey between 1880-1893 and was appointed Secretary to the county club in 1919, unfortunately dying before he had completed a year in office. He first led Surrey to the County Championship in 1887. They then came first in 1888, tied with Lancashire and Nottinghamshire in 1889, and won again in 1890, 1891 and 1892. Shuter was a batsman and chiefly an off-side player. He played one Test at The Oval in August 1888 against the Australians making 28 in England’s only innings.