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 ...
ers who represented
London County Cricket Club
London County Cricket Club was a short-lived cricket club founded by the Crystal Palace Company. In 1898 they invited WG Grace to help them form a first-class cricket club. Grace accepted the offer and became the club's secretary, manager and ...
when it was officially designated a first-class team from 1900 to 1904. The details are the player's usual name followed by his name as it would appear on modern match scorecards (usually his surname preceded by all initials). As London County was a short-lived venture, nearly all of its players represented other first-class teams and most of them are better known for their careers at other county sides.
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Ted Arnold
Edward George Arnold (7 November 1876 – 25 October 1942) was an English cricketer who played in ten Test Matches from 1903 to 1907, and most of his 343 first-class matches for Worcestershire between 1899 and 1913. His ''Wisden'' obituar ...
: E. G. Arnold
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Alfred Atfield
Alfred John Atfield (3 March 1868 – 1 January 1949) played first-class cricket in England and South Africa and was also a Test match umpire and an influential cricket coach. He was born at Ightham, Kent, England and died at Caterham, Surrey. ...
Samuel Coe
Samuel Coe (3 June 1873 – 4 November 1955) was an English first-class cricketer. He was a left-hand batsman and left-arm slow-medium bowler who played for Leicestershire.
Born in Earl Shilton, Leicestershire, Coe made a total of 448 appeara ...
: S. Coe
* Henry Colegrave : H. M. Colegrave
* E. Cox : E. Cox (1900)
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Beaumont Cranfield
Beaumont Cranfield (28 August 1872 – 20 January 1909) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1897 and 1908. A slow left-arm orthodox b ...
Leonidas de Montezuma
Leonidas de Toledo Marcondes de Montezuma (16 April 1869 – 18 March 1937) was an English cricketer and allround sportsman who also competed as a cyclist.
Life
De Montezuma was born at Crowborough, Sussex, the sixth of nine children. His pa ...
: L. D. M. de Montezuma
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Charles de Trafford
Charles Edmund de Trafford (21 May 1864 – 11 November 1951) was an English aristocrat and a first-class cricketer.
Early life
Charles de Trafford was born at Trafford Hall, Trafford Park, Stretford, the second son of Sir Humphrey de Traffo ...
: C. E. de Trafford
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Ted Dillon
Edward Wentworth Dillon (15 February 1881 – 20 April 1941) was an English amateur sportsman in the early years of the 20th century. He played over 200 first-class cricket matches, mainly for Kent County Cricket Club between 1900 and 1913. Dill ...
: E. W. Dillon
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Johnny Douglas
John William Henry Tyler Douglas (3 September 1882 – 19 December 1930) was an English cricketer who was active in the early decades of the twentieth century. Douglas was an all-rounder who played for Essex County Cricket Club from 1901 to ...
: J. W. H. T. Douglas
* Thomas Drew : T. M. Drew
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William Dyas
William George Dyas MBE (6 November 1872 – 14 January 1940) was an English first-class cricketer, as well as footballer, businessman and local politician in Shropshire.
Early life
Dyas was born in November 1872 at Madeley, Shropshire, son of ...
: W. G. Dyas
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Frederick Fane
Frederick Luther Fane, (27 April 1875 – 27 November 1960) played cricket for the England cricket team in 14 Test matches. He also played for Essex, Oxford University and London County.
Fane was born at Curragh Camp in County Kildare, ...
Tom Fishwick
Tom Silvester Fishwick (24 July 1876 – 21 February 1950) was an English cricketer. He was a middle-order right-handed batsman and an occasional wicketkeeper who played first-class cricket for Warwickshire between 1896 and 1909, and captained t ...
: T. S. Fishwick
* Frederick Fleming : F. Fleming
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Edgar Ford
Edgar Samuel Ford (20 May 1876 – 11 April 1943) was an English first-class cricketer.
Ford was born at Bradford-on-Avon in May 1876. He made his debut for Wiltshire in minor counties cricket in the 1899 Minor Counties Championship. He ...
C. B. Fry
Charles Burgess Fry (25 April 1872 – 7 September 1956) was an English sportsman, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer. John Arlott described him with the words: "Charles Fry could ...
: C. B. Fry
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* Lionel Jackson : L. Jackson
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Bangalore Jayaram
Bangalore Jayaram (23 April 18724 December 1936) was an Indian cricketer who had represented the London County Cricket Club in the early 1900s, and was also a part of the All-Indian cricket team in England in 1911.
Early life
Jayaram was bor ...
: B. Jayaram
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Gilbert Jessop
Gilbert Laird Jessop (19 May 1874 – 11 May 1955) was an English cricket player, often reckoned to have been the fastest run-scorer cricket has ever known. He was Wisden Cricketer of the Year for 1898.
Career
Jessop was born in Cheltenham, G ...
Herbert Keigwin
Herbert Stanley Keigwin ( 4 May 1878 – 11 March 1962) was an English cricketer and colonial administrator in South Africa.
Keigwin was born in Capel, Colchester, Essex, the brother of Henry Keigwin and R. P. Keigwin. He was educated at St P ...
: H. S. Keigwin
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Richard Kenward
Richard Kenward (23 May 1875 – 24 December 1957) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire in 1899 and for Sussex in 1902.
Kenward was born at Icklesham, Sussex the son of Trayton Kenward and his wife Emily Tur ...
: R. Kenward
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Alexander Kermode
Alexander Kermode (15 May 1876 – 17 July 1934) was an Australian cricketer active from 1901 to 1908 who played for New South Wales, London County and Lancashire.
Kermode was born and died in Sydney. He appeared in 80 first-class matches a ...
Johannes Kotze
Johannes Jacobus "Kodgee" Kotze (7 August 1879 – 7 July 1931) was a cricketer from Cape Colony who played in three Test matches Test match in some sports refers to a sporting contest between national representative teams and may refer to:
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Albert Lawton
Albert Edward Lawton (31 March 1879 – 25 December 1955) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1900 and 1910 and for Lancashire between 1912 and 1914. He captained the Derbyshire team between 1902 and 19 ...
Dick Lilley
Arthur Frederick Augustus Lilley (28 November 1866 – 17 November 1929), variously known as Dick Lilley or A. A. Lilley, was an English professional cricketer who played for Warwickshire County Cricket Club from 1888 to 1911, and in 35 Test ma ...
: A. F. A. Lilley
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Charlie Llewellyn
Charles Bennett "Buck" Llewellyn (29 September 1876 – 7 June 1964) was the first non-white South African Test cricketer. He appeared in 15 Test matches for South Africa between 1895 and 1912, and played in English cricket as a professional for ...
: C. B. Llewellyn
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* Thomas Nicolson of Carnock (died 1646), commissioner for Stirlingshire
* Sir Thomas Nicolson, 6th Baronet (died 1693), of the Nicolson baronets
* Thomas Nicolson (bishop) (1645–1718), Roman Catholic b ...
Thomas Oates
Thomas William Oates (9 August 1875 – 18 June 1949) was a first-class cricketer and Test match umpire.
Born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1875, Oates played 434 matches for London County and Nottinghamshire as a wicket keeper and right- ...
Howard Parkes
Howard Roderick Parkes (31 May 1877 – 28 May 1920) was an English cricketer and athlete. A right-handed batsman, he played first-class cricket for London County and Warwickshire.
Career
Howard Parkes' first recorded senior match was for th ...
: H. R. Parkes
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Percy Perrin
Percival Albert Perrin (26 May 1876 – 20 November 1945), known as either "Percy" or "Peter", was an English cricketer, who played for Essex as a right-handed middle-order batsman for more than thirty years from 1896.
Perrin was a Tottenham ...
: P. A. Perrin
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Arthur Pickering
Arthur Pickering (1878 – 15 December 1939) was an English cricketer. He played for Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of th ...
: A. Pickering
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Les Poidevin
Leslie Oswald Sheridan Poidevin (5 November 1876 – 19 November 1931) was an Australian tennis player and first-class cricketer who played for New South Wales cricket team, New South Wales and Lancashire CCC, Lancashire.
Biography
A right-h ...
Rowland Powell-Williams
Rowland Powell-Williams (8 January 1872 – 16 December 1951) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1897 and 1905 for Warwickshire, London County and the Gentlemen of England. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick ...
: R. Powell-Williams
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Charles Prince
Charles Owen "Chuck" Prince III (born January 13, 1950) is an American corporate executive and lawyer. He is a former chairman and chief executive of Citigroup. He succeeded Sandy Weill as the chief executive of the firm in 2003, and as the chair ...
: C. F. H. Prince
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Willie Quaife
William George Quaife (17 March 1872 – 13 October 1951) was a cricketer who played for Sussex, Warwickshire and England. At the age of 56 years and 139 days, Quaife is the oldest cricketer to score a century in a County Championship match, d ...
: W. G. Quaife
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Louis Tancred
Louis Joseph Tancred (7 October 1876 – 28 July 1934) was a South African cricketer who played in 14 Test matches from 1902 to 1913, including three as captain.
Born into a cricketing family in Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, Tancred attended St ...
: L. J. Tancred
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Theodore Tapp
Theodore Arthur Tapp (5 April 1883 – 21 October 1917) was an English people, English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
The son of Charles Tapp, he was born in April 1883 at Shortlands, Shortlands, Kent. He was educated at Rugby ...
: T. A. Tapp
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Christian Tindall
Christian Tindall (18 May 1878 – 13 April 1951) was an English officer in the Indian Civil Service and first-class cricketer.
The son of John Tindall, he was born at Leighton Buzzard in May 1878. Tindall joined the civil service in October 1 ...
: C. Tindall
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Sidney Tindall
Sidney Maguire Tindall (18 February 1867 – 19 September 1922) was an English cricketer active from 1894 to 1901 who played for Lancashire and London County. He was born in Margate and died in Sydney. He appeared in 56 first-class matches as a ...
Charlie Townsend
Charles Lucas Townsend (7 November 1876 – 17 October 1958) was a Gloucestershire cricketer. An all-round cricketer, Townsend was classically stylish, left-handed batsman, who was able to hit well despite his slender build. His off-side strok ...
: C. L. Townsend
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Albert Trott
Albert Edwin Trott (6 February 1873 – 30 July 1914) was a Test cricketer for both Australia and England. He was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1899. He is believed to be the only batsman to have struck a ball over the ...
: A. E. Trott
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Joe Vine
Joseph Vine (15 May 1875 – 25 April 1946) was a professional cricketer, who played his first-class cricket for Sussex County Cricket Club
Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic ...
: J. Vine
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Richard Voss
Richard Voss (2 September 1851 – 10 June 1918) was a German dramatist and novelist. In standard German orthography, his name is printed as Voß.
Biography
Voss was born at Neu-Grape near Pyritz, in Pomerania, the son of a country squire. ...
: R. Z. H. Voss
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Livingstone Walker
Livingstone Walker (14 June 1879 – 10 October 1940) was an English amateur cricketer. His first-class career lasted from 1900 to 1904. He was a middle-order batsman, an occasional off spin bowler, and a very occasional wicket-keeper. He capt ...
: L. Walker
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Benjamin Wallach
Benjamin Wallach (18 September 1873 – 25 May 1935) was a South African cricketer who played in first-class matches in South Africa and England between 1898 and 1905. He was born in Queenstown, Cape Colony, and died in Troyeville, Johannesbu ...
: B. Wallach
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Lionel Wells
Admiral Sir Lionel Victor Wells KCB, DSO (28 November 1884 – 22 April 1965) was a Royal Navy officer who became Admiral Commanding, Orkneys and Shetlands.
Naval career
Wells joined the Royal Navy as a cadet on 15 September 1899. As a midshi ...
: L. S. Wells
* David Williams : D. P. Williams
* Cecil Wood : C. J. B. Wood
* Arthur Woodcock : A. Woodcock
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