Algernon Hay Lushington (29 September 1847 – 13 September 1930) was an English first-class
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er.
The son of Frederick Astell Lushington and Lady Margaret Julia Hay, he was born at
Lyndhurst in September 1847. He was educated at
Rugby School,
before going up to
Trinity College, Cambridge.
A resident of
Shanklin on the
Isle of Wight where he was a member of Shanklin Cricket Club, Lushington made three appearances in
first-class cricket for
Hampshire, the first of which came against
Lancashire at
Southampton in 1870. He would not play his next two first-class matches until 1877, when he appeared against the
Marylebone Cricket Club at
Lord's
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and
Kent at Southampton. In three first-class matches, Lushington took 3 wickets and scored 48 runs. Lushington died at
Shanklin on the
Isle of Wight in September 1930. At the time of his death he was heir-presumptive to his cousin,
Sir Andrew Lushington, the 5th Baronet of the
Lushington baronets
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. His great-grandfather was
James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll.
[Scots Earl's Kinsman Dead. '']Dundee Evening Telegraph
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''. 16 September 1830. p. 5
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1847 births
1930 deaths
People from Lyndhurst, Hampshire
People educated at Rugby School
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
English cricketers
Hampshire cricketers
Cricketers from Hampshire