Peter "Buck" Stewart (1730–1796) was an English

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er who played for the

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in its great days during the 1760s and 1770s. Known to have been nicknamed "Buck" because he was a "natty dresser", Stewart was a considerable player but one of many whose best years were before 1772 and whose records are mostly lost.

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, ''The Glory Days of Cricket'', Robson, 1997 Stewart worked as a carpenter, shoemaker and innkeeper. He is said to have been one of the team's characters and a noted humorist. He was a good batsman in his prime and strong in his offside strokes.

, ''John Nyren's "The Cricketers of my Time"'', Robson, 1998 Stewart was a stoic, durable player. In one 1764 game against

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, he played with a knee strain and a broken finger.

H T Waghorn Henry Thomas Waghorn (11 April 1842 – 30 January 1930), was a cricket statistician and historian. He is best known for his two classic researches into cricket's early history: ''The Dawn of Cricket'' and Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730 - 1773 ...

, ''The Dawn of Cricket'', Electric Press, 1906

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CricketArchive record of Peter Stewart
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, Peter English cricketers Hampshire cricketers English cricketers of 1701 to 1786 1730 births 1796 deaths Hambledon cricketers