Person:Edith Borissow (2)

geni:about_me Edith Borissow and the Indian prince and cricket player K. S. Ranjitsinhji, known in England as "Ranji" (1872-1933), were reported as having been engaged, but they never married.

Information on Ranji:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumar_Shri_Ranjitsinhji

A recently published story about "Ranji's" visit to Rev. Louis Borissow and family in 1907 (7 July 2009):

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/columnists/backtrack/4477900.I_don___t_like_cricket__I_love_it/

AS we observed a couple of weeks back, the Maharajah Jam Singh of Nawangar – Ranji to his friends – was both the first Indian to play test cricket for England and a regular visitor to the village of Gilling East, near Helmsley.

Ever the innocent, we had assumed that it was purely because of his love of the North Yorkshire countryside and affection for the rector, his former tutor at Cambridge.

Cherchez la femme, as probably they say in those parts, the real attraction – insists cricket writer Simon Wilde – appears to have been Edith Borissow, the rector’s beautiful eldest daughter.

We’ve also had a letter from John Calvert in Hutton Rudby who provides more details of the two-day village match in 1907 in which Ranji’s team of all-stars helped raise more than £100 for a new church clock.

The side included England men like Charles Burgess Fry, Willie Quaife (who hit a century on his last appearance for Warwickshire, aged 56) and Archie MacLaren, who at 52 scored an undefeated 200 for the MCC.

Prince Ranji, at any rate, was invited officially to set the clock back in motion – and showed he had a sense of humour, too. “Fancy,” he said, “a Christian clock started by a heathen.”