Bert Tremlin had a fine career as a seam bowler with Essex, claiming 467 wickets during his first-class career between 1900 and 1919. However, he was not a regular in the Essex 1st XI until 1905 and the year before he had a stint with the Hill’s Plymouth club in Merthyr where his elder brother Charlie was playing as a professional before later becoming the groundsman at the Merthyr club’s base at Pentrebach.
During this time, Bert agreed to assist Welsh county’s selectors by appearing for The Gentlemen of Glamorgan against the Players at Cardiff Arms Park in their friendly on 3 August 1904. However, he did not bowl and scored just 2 in the contest whose gate receipts were in aid of the Cardiff professionals, Jack Nash and Tom Poole
Any thoughts that the Glamorgan committee, as well as the Cardiff officials, may have held that Bert might switch allegiances for 1905 were dashed as he returned to the East of England and became a regular in the Essex side. However, between 1907 and 1909 he secured an engagement with Colne CC in the Lancashire League, before returning to Essex.
After retiring from playing in the 1920s, Bert was groundsman at Escrick Park, the home of the Yorkshire Gentlemen’s CC, before becoming cricket coach at Forest School in Chigwell.
TREMLIN, Bert
Born – Westerleigh, Gloucestershire, 18 September 1877.
Died – Woodford, Essex, 12 April 1936.