Alexander Barrett

Alexander Barrett
Personal information
Full name	Alexander Barrett
Born	17 November 1866; Taunton, England
Died	12 March 1954 (aged 87); Taunton, England
Batting	Unknown
Domestic team information
1896	Somerset
Only First-class	11 June 1896 Somerset v Cambridge University
Career statistics
Matches	1
Runs scored	6
Batting average	3
100s/50s	0/0
Top score	6
Catches/stumpings	0/–
	Source: ESPNcricinfo, 20 August 2008

Last updated March 08, 2019

Major Alexander Gould Barrett (17 November 1866 – 12 March 1954) was an Englishman who was a member of the landed gentry. He served in the West Somerset Yeomanry, and was a keen amateur cricketer who played one first-class cricket match for Somerset in 1896, and was president of the club in the early 1930s.

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to the west and Scotland to the north-northwest. The Irish Sea lies west of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.

The landed gentry, or simply the gentry, is a largely historical British social class consisting in theory of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least had a country estate. It was distinct from, and socially "below", the aristocracy or peerage, although in fact some of the landed gentry were wealthier than some peers, and many gentry were related to peers. They often worked as administrators of their own lands, while others became public, political, religious, and armed forces figures. The decline of this privileged class largely stemmed from the 1870s agricultural depression; however, there are still a large number of hereditary gentry in the UK to this day, many of whom transferred their landlord style management skills after the agricultural depression into the business of land agency, the act of buying and selling land.

The West Somerset Yeomanry was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army. First raised in 1794, it participated in the Second Boer War and World War I before being converted to an artillery regiment. It served in World War II. Post-war it was gradually reduced in strength until the yeomanry lineage of the successor unit was discontinued on 9 November 1988.

Life

Barrett was born on 17 November 1866, the son of Major William Barrett, who served in the 2nd Somerset Militia, and Maria Herring (née Chard). He attended first Eton College and then Lincoln College, Oxford. He then entered the West Somerset Yeomanry, in which he remained until 1911, when he left having gained the rank of Major.^[1]

The Somerset Light Infantry was a light infantry infantry regiment of the British Army, which served under various titles from 1685 to 1959. In 1959, the regiment was amalgamated with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry to form the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry which was again amalgamated, in 1968, with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and the Durham Light Infantry to form The Light Infantry. In 2007, however, The Light Infantry was amalgamated further with the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment and the Royal Green Jackets to form The Rifles.

Eton College British independent boarding school located in Eton

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Lincoln College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, situated on Turl Street in central Oxford. Lincoln was founded in 1427 by Richard Fleming, then Bishop of Lincoln.

Barrett made his only first-class appearance for Somerset, playing as a lower-order batsman against Cambridge University at Cambridge in 1896. He scored six runs in his first innings and a duck in his second, both times being bowled by Horace Gray.^[2] Three other players made their first-class debuts for Somerset in this match: like Barrett, two of them, Harry MacDonald and Douglas McLean never played first-class cricket again.

First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each although, in practice, a team might play only one innings or none at all.

Cambridge University Cricket Club, first recorded in 1817, is the representative cricket club for students of the University of Cambridge. Depending on the circumstances of each individual match, the club has always been recognised as holding first-class status. The university played List A cricket in 1972 and 1974 only. It has not played top-level Twenty20 cricket.

Harry Lindsay Somerled MacDonald played first-class cricket for Somerset in 1896. He was born in Westminster, London and died at Bathford, Somerset.

Barrett played a lot of cricket for the Somerset Stragglers, an amateur side that played for enjoyment. He also established an annual fixture between a team of his selection "A. G. Barrett's XI" and the Somerset Light Infantry. He acted as President of Somerset County Cricket Club from 1931 to 1932. After outliving his brothers, he inherited the family estate late in life, and donated Burrow Mump to the National Trust in 1946. He died on 12 March 1954 at Musgrove Hospital in Taunton,^[1] after a motor accident.^[3]

Burrow Mump is a hill and historic site overlooking Southlake Moor in the village of Burrowbridge within the English county of Somerset. It is a scheduled monument, with the ruined church on top of the hill a Grade II listed building.

National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland

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References

1 2 Hill, Stephen (2016). Somerset Cricketers 1882 – 1914. Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove. pp. 173–75. ISBN 978-0-85704-291-0.
↑ "Cambridge University v Somerset: University Match 1896". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
↑ J. B. C. Brown, ed. (1954). "School Notes". The Aluredian (PDF). p. 4.

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[hill-1] 1 2 Hill, Stephen (2016). Somerset Cricketers 1882 – 1914. Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove. pp. 173–75. ISBN 978-0-85704-291-0.

[2] "Cambridge University v Somerset: University Match 1896". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 September 2017.

[3] J. B. C. Brown, ed. (1954). "School Notes". The Aluredian (PDF). p. 4.