Essex County Cricket Club are saddened to learn of the passing of Essex Honorary Life Vice-President Lord Alan Haselhurst, who passed away on Monday 01 June aged 88 years-old.<\/p>\n
Born on 23 June 1937 in South Elmsall, Yorkshire, Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst served as a Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden from 1977 to 2017 and was an Honorary Life Vice-President at Essex Cricket. His service was recognised with a knighthood in 1995 before he entered the House of Lords as Baron Haselhurst in 2018.<\/p>\n
Lord Haselhurst had a lifelong love of cricket. Whilst always retaining an affection for his native Yorkshire, he became a Member of Essex and a regular visitor to Chelmsford after being elected as M.P for Saffron Walden. <\/p>\n
In 1996, he was elected to the Club’s General Committee and served for twelve years. His wisdom and experience were of great value during his term of office and he was a good friend to the players, supporting their benefits and hosting functions in the House of Commons. <\/p>\n
Essex County Cricket Club extends sincere condolences to Lord Haselhurst’s family, friends, and all those who are connected with him. May Alan rest peacefully, he will be sadly missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essex County Cricket Club are saddened to learn of the passing of Essex Honorary Life Vice-President Lord Alan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-713113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}