Richard Elmhirst (18 September 1803 – 18 November 1859) was an English first-class

cricket Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...

er. He is recorded as a

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in one match for

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in 1822, when he scored one run. Elmhirst was educated at Doncaster School (now Hall Cross Academy) and

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. After graduating he became a

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at Lincoln.

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1803 births 1859 deaths Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge English cricketers of 1787 to 1825 Cambridge University cricketers 19th-century English medical doctors {{England-cricket-bio-1800s-stub