John Tanner (1772 – 23 March 1858) was an English amateur

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er who made 45 known appearances in

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ...

matches between 1797 and 1826.John Tanner
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Tanner was mainly associated with Surrey teams but also played for

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(MCC) and other teams. He was "a bowler of some repute" and an occasional wicketkeeper.

Arthur Haygarth Arthur Haygarth (4 August 1825 – 1 May 1903) was a noted English amateur cricketer who became one of cricket's most significant historians. He played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club and Sussex between 1844 and 1861, as wel ...

, ''Scores & Biographies'', Volume 1 (1744-1826), Lillywhite, 1862. Tanner lived at

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where he died, aged 86. He was buried in the cemetery at Norwood.

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1772 births 1858 deaths English cricketers English cricketers of 1787 to 1825 English cricketers of 1826 to 1863 Surrey cricketers Sussex cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Hampshire cricketers Middlesex cricketers Epsom cricketers Gentlemen cricketers St John's Wood cricketers William Ward's XI cricketers Lord Frederick Beauclerk's XI cricketers George Osbaldeston's XI cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1770s-stub