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The Honourable Ivo Bligh's cricket team tour Australia when The Ashes were brought back to England, circa 1882. After the team's victory in the third and deciding match against the Australians, ladies burned the bails and put "the ashes" in an urn for Bligh to take home. Left to right, back row: Fred Morley, Mr Moone, George Vernon, Charles Studd, Walter Read and Dick Barlow; centre: Charles Leslie, Edward Tylecote, The Honourable Ivo Bligh and George Studd; front: Billy Barnes, Billy Bates and Allan Steel. (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

The Honourable Ivo Bligh's cricket team tour Australia when The Ashes were brought back to England, circa 1882.  After the team's victory in the third and deciding match against the Australians, ladies burned the bails and put "the ashes" in an urn for Bligh to take home.  Left to right, back row:  Fred Morley, Mr Moone, George Vernon, Charles Studd, Walter Read and Dick Barlow; centre: Charles Leslie, Edward Tylecote, The Honourable Ivo Bligh and George Studd; front: Billy Barnes, Billy Bates and Allan Steel. (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)