Carleton Fowell Tufnell (20 February 1856 – 26 May 1940) was an English

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 st ...

er. Born in

Northfleet Northfleet is a town in the borough of Gravesham in Kent, England. It is located immediately west of Gravesend, and on the border with the Borough of Dartford. Northfleet has its own railway station on the North Kent Line, just east of Ebb ...

, Tufnell attended

Eton College Eton College () is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI of England, Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. i ...

, where he failed to make an appearance for the school's cricket eleven. A medium pace bowler and useful batsman, Tufnell played in eight first-class matches for

Kent County Cricket Club Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Kent. A club representing the county was first founded in 1842 but Ke ...

, taking 15 wickets and scoring 108 runs.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 540–541.
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. Retrieved 2020-12-21.) He moved to

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following the

1879 English cricket season 1879 was the 93rd season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Lancashire claimed a share of the Champion County title for the first time. The summer was the coolest and wettest over the two-and-a-half cen ...

, with false reports of his death in

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reaching England in 1884.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tufnell, Carleton 1856 births 1940 deaths English cricketers Kent cricketers People educated at Eton College People from Northfleet Gentlemen of Kent cricketers