Henry Cholmondeley
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| Full name | Henry Pitt Cholmondeley | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 June 1820 Whitegate, Cheshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 14 April 1905 (aged 84) Broadwell, Gloucestershire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1844 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 11 September 2021 | |||||||||||||||
Henry Pitt Cholmondeley (15 June 1820 – 14 April 1905) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.
The son of the Thomas Cholmondeley, 1st Baron Delamere, he was born in June 1820 at Whitegate, Cheshire.[1] He was educated at Rugby School,[2] before going up to Christ Church, Oxford. After gaining his M.A. in 1841, he became a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.[3] Cholmondley played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Oxford University at Oxford in 1844.[4] Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed in the MCC first innings for 4 runs by Henry Moberly, while in their second innings he opened the batting and was dismissed for the same score by the same bowler.[5] Cholmondeley was ordained in the Church of England and from 1852 was rector at Broadwell with Adlestrop in Gloucestershire. He was made an honorary canon of Gloucester Cathedral in 1877.[3] He died at the rectory at Adlestrop in April 1905.[6] He was married to Mary Leigh, with the couple having nine children, among them the historian Lionel Berners Cholmondeley.[7]
References
- ^ Dod, Charles Roger (1856). The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. Whittaker and Company. p. 598.
- ^ Rugby School Register from 1675 to 1849. Vol. 1. A. J. Lawrence. 1881. p. 198.
- ^ a b Foster, Joseph (1891). "Cholmondeley, Henry Pitt". Alumni Oxonienses. Parker and Company. p. 249.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Henry Cholmondeley". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
- ^ "Oxford University v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1844". CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
- ^ Obituary. Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 18 April 1905. p. 8
- ^ Hebdon, Geoffrey (2020). The Delamere Saga: The Untold Story of Royal Vale Abbey. Interactive Publications Pty, Limited. p. 133. ISBN 9781922332127.