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List Of Essex First-class Cricketers To 1793
This is a list of cricketers who played for Essex county cricket teams in first-class cricket matches. Essex teams played five matches which are now considered first-class between 1787 and 1793. The Essex-based Hornchurch Cricket Club played nine matches over the same period which are also considered first-class and many players appeared for both sides, although the Hornchurch side is not generally considered representative of the county. The current Essex County Cricket Club was established in 1874 and has held first-class status since 1894, first appearing in the County Championship in 1895. Essex County Cricket Club. Retrieved 2024-06-08. A B C D F G H I ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essex County Cricket Teams
Essex county cricket teams have been traced back to the 18th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that. It is almost certain that cricket reached Essex by the 16th century and that it developed during the 17th century with inter-parish matches being played. 18th century The first definite mention of cricket in connection with the county is a highly controversial match in 1724 between Chingford and Edwin Stead's XI, which is recorded in ''The Dawn of Cricket'' by H. T. Waghorn. The venue is unknown but, if it were at Chingford, it is also the earliest reference to cricket being played in Essex as well as by an Essex team. The game echoed an earlier one in 1718 as the Chingford team refused to play to a finish when Stead's team had the advantage. A court case followed and, as in 1718, it was ordered to be played out presumably so that all wagers could be fulfilled. Lord Chief Justice Pratt presided over the case and he ordered them to play i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Francis (cricketer)
Richard Francis (dates unknown) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in the last quarter of the 18th century.Richard Francis CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-02-09. He played mainly for Hampshire sides although is known to have been born in Surrey and played for Surrey teams before moving to Hampshire. Later he moved to Essex and is known to have played for a variety of sides. He made 47 known appearances in first-class matches between 1773 and 1793. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wyatt (cricketer)
Richard Barnard Wyatt (born 1762) was cricketer who played in the late 18th century. Wyatt was born at Hornchurch in Essex in 1762 and christened at Romford in 1764.Richard Wyatt CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-06-08. He played in a total of 20 cricket matches which are now considered to have status, making his debut in 1787 playing for . He played in all nine of the matches that Hornchurch played which are considered first-class as well as in four of the five that [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hornchurch
Hornchurch is a suburban town in East London in the London Borough of Havering. It is located east-northeast of Charing Cross. It comprises a number of shopping streets and a large residential area. It historically formed a large ancient parish in the county of Essex that became the manor and liberty of Havering. The economic history of Hornchurch is underpinned by a shift away from agriculture to other industries with the growing significance of nearby Romford as a market town and centre of administration. As part of the suburban growth of London in the 20th century, Hornchurch significantly expanded and increased in population, becoming an urban district in 1926 and has formed part of Greater London since 1965. It is the location of Queen's Theatre, Havering Sixth Form College and Havering College of Further and Higher Education. History Toponymy According to Mills, Hornchurch is first recorded in English in 1233 as ''Hornechurch'' and means 'church with horn-like gab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Ockendon
South Ockendon is a town, former civil parish and Church of England parish within the Thurrock borough in Essex in the East of England, United Kingdom. It is located on the border with Greater London, just outside the M25 motorway. The area to the north is North Ockendon. In 2019 it had an estimated population of 22,303 and in the 2021 United Kingdom census it had a population of 22,442. History South Ockendon is an ancient parish. It was a village before the Norman Conquest, had a priest in 1085.Cyril Hart ''The Early Charters of Essex'' (Leicester University Press, 1971) is listed in the Domesday Book''DB32 Essex'', location=Chichester , publisher=Phillimore, year=1983, section 57b & section 58a as "Wocheduna", conjecturally named after a Saxon chief, Wocca, whose tribe allegedly lived on a hill. The suffix "don" in Old English means a low hill in open country. Until the late 1940s, the village centred on The Village Green, with its Norman church of St. Nicholas of Myra and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stevens (cricketer, Born 1769)
John Stevens (1769 – 13 January 1863) was an English cricketer who made 11 known appearances in first-class cricket matches from 1789 to 1793. Stevens was born at South Ockendon in Essex in 1769.John Stevens CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-06-08. He made his first-class debut for an Essex side against MCC at in 1789, going on to play in ten more matches which are now considered to have first-class status. All of these were for Essex based sides: fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Scott (cricketer)
Thomas Scott (1766 – 5 November 1799) was an English cricketer who played for Hampshire at the time of the Hambledon Club. He was a specialist batsman. Born 1766 at Alton, Hampshire, the earliest known mention of Scott was when he played for Odiham and Alton against Farnham at the Holt Pound ground in Farnham in 1784. In John Nyren's ''The Cricketers of my Time'', Scott is listed among the author's "most eminent players in the Hambledon Club when it was in its glory", although he does not otherwise mention him. The earliest biographical information about Scott is provided by Arthur Haygarth,''Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744–1826)'', p.242-243 who describes Scott as a "very successful batsman indeed for the Hambledon Club, for several seasons". Haygarth believed that Scott was by trade a glover in Alton, his home village. Scott played in 29 matches which are now considered to be first-class. He played most frequently for Hampshire sides, although he appeared as a given m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Remington
Michael Remington (16 December 1757 – January 1826) was an English first-class cricketer. Born at Boughton Monchelsea, where he was baptised in December 1757, Remington was one of three sons of Samuel and Susanna Remington who played cricket.Warsop K (2011) Cricketers in great matches 1772–1800: a follow up, ''The Cricket Statistician'', vol 156, winter 2011, p. 24.Available onlineat The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2 March 2024.) He made his debut in first-class cricket for Kent against Hampshire at Alresford in 1781, with Remington also playing in a first-class match for East Kent against West Kent in the same season. His next appearance in first-class cricket came in 1787, when he played for Hornchurch against a combined White Conduit Club and Moulsey Hurst cricket team at Hornchurch. Two weeks after this match he appeared for Essex against Middlesex at Lord's Old Ground, with Remington following this up with two further first-class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waltham Abbey
Waltham Abbey is a suburban town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, within the London metropolitan area, metropolitan and urban area of London, England, East London, north-east of Charing Cross. It lies on the Greenwich Meridian, between the River Lea in the west and Epping Forest in the east, with large sections forming part of the Metropolitan Green Belt. The town borders Chingford to the south; Loughton, Theydon Bois and Buckhurst Hill to the east; Cheshunt, Waltham Cross and Enfield, London, Enfield to the west; and the rural areas of Nazeing and Epping Upland to the north. As well as the main built-up area, the parish covers the areas of Claverhambury, Fishers Green, High Beach, Holyfield, Lippitts Hill, Sewardstone, Sewardstonebury and Upshire. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the civil parish of Waltham Abbey had a population of 22,859. The town is named and renowned for its former abbey, the last in England to be Dissolution of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord's
Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket List of Test cricket grounds, venue in St John's Wood, Westminster. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), the ICC Europe and, until August 2005, the International Cricket Council (ICC). Lord's is widely referred to as the ''Home of Cricket'' and has the world's oldest sporting museum. Lord's today is not on its original site; it is the third of three grounds that Lord established between 1787 and 1814. His first ground, now referred to as Lord's Old Ground, was where Dorset Square now stands. His second ground, Lord's Middle Ground, was used from 1811 to 1813 before being abandoned to make way for the construction through its outfield of the Regent's Canal. The present Lord's ground is about north-west of the site of the Middle Ground. The ground can hold 31,100 spectators, the ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ingram (cricketer)
Thomas Ingram (dates unknown) was an English cricketer of the late 18th century. He was a left-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper. According to ''Scores and Biographies'', Ingram was for a time a victualler at Cobham in Surrey. Haygarth A (1862) ''Scores and Biographies, Volume 1''. Lillywhite. He made his first-class cricket debut in a 1787 match between a White Conduit Club and Moulsey Heath side against Hornchurch Cricket Club, going on to play in 21 matches which are now considered first-class in a career that lasted until 1797. He played for a variety of sides, appearing four times for Surrey and Hornchurch XIs and three times for Essex and England XIs.Thomas Ingram CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-06-08. Ingram's best performance as a wicket-keeper was in an Essex match against |
Marylebone Cricket Club
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's, Lord's Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London, England. The club was the governing body of cricket from 1788 to 1989 and retains considerable global influence. In 1788, the MCC took responsibility for the laws of cricket, issuing a revised version that year. Changes to these Laws are now determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC), but the copyright is still owned by MCC. When the ICC was established in 1909, it was administered by the secretary of the MCC, and the president of the MCC automatically assumed the chairmanship of the ICC until 1989. For much of the 20th century, commencing with the English cricket team in Australia in 1903–04, 1903–04 tour of Australia and ending with the English cricket team in India and Sri Lanka in 1976–77, 1976–77 tour of India, MCC organised international tours on behalf of the England cricket team for playing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
