Hugh Tapsfield

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Hugh Alexander Tapsfield (31 January 1870 – 3 March 1945) played first-class cricket for Somerset in 1892. [1] He was born at Windsor Castle, Berkshire and died at Weybridge, Surrey.

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Cricket Team sport played with bats and balls

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 20-metre (22-yard) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at the wicket with the bat, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this and dismiss each player. Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground. When ten players have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee in international matches. They communicate with two off-field scorers who record the match's statistical information.

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Cricket career

The son of a minor canon at Windsor Castle who was later the vicar of Nether Stowey in Somerset, Hugh Tapsfield was educated at Bradfield College and at Magdalen College, Oxford University. He played cricket primarily as an opening bowler and lower-order batsman and featured in trial matches for Oxford University in 1889, 1891 and 1892; despite taking wickets in all of these matches, he did not play first-class cricket for the full Oxford side. [2] His only first-class cricket appearance was, in fact, for Somerset against Oxford in 1892; Tapsfield batted in the lower order, scored 0 and 1 and was not called upon to bowl. [3] As a student he was also involved with the Oxford University Dramatic Society in a production of The Frogs that was reviewed in The Times. [4]

Nether Stowey village in the United Kingdom

Nether Stowey is a large village in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, South West England. It sits in the foothills of the Quantock Hills, just below Over Stowey. The parish of Nether Stowey covers approximately 4 km², with a population of 1,373.

Bradfield College

Bradfield College is a British co-educational independent school for day and boarding pupils, located in the small village of Bradfield in the English county of Berkshire. It is noted for producing plays in Ancient Greek and its Greek Theatre.

Magdalen College, Oxford constituent college of the University of Oxford in England

Magdalen College is one of the wealthiest constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, with an estimated financial endowment of £180.8 million as of 2014.

Clerical career

After graduating, Tapsfield became a clergyman in the Church of England. In 1895, he was appointed a deacon at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. [5] By 1902, he was a minor canon at St Paul's Cathedral, London when he gave the main address at the Good Friday service. [6] He resigned as a minor canon in 1906, [7] and was then appointed as vicar at Bembridge, Isle of Wight. [8] He moved to Wootton St Lawrence, Basingstoke in 1911 and there were later moves to Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire and to West Byfleet in Surrey, where he was living when he died after an operation in 1945. [9]

Church of England Anglican state church of England

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Cheshunt town in Hertfordshire, England

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Hertfordshire County of England

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Golf

From 1913 onwards, Tapsfield's name recurs in golf reports in The Times, playing in the 1930s in prominent tournaments alongside international players and appearing also in "well-connected" matches of club players against the universities and the services. Much of his golf appears to have been played at the expensive St George's Hill club at Weybridge.

St Georges Hill

St George's Hill is a 964-acre (3.9 km2) private estate in Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom. The estate has golf and tennis clubs, as well as approximately 420 houses. Land ownership is divided between homes with gardens, belonging to home owners, and the estate roads and verges belonging to its residents' association. The hill first served as a home and leisure location to celebrities and successful entrepreneurs on its division into lots in the 1910s and 1920s when Walter George Tarrant built its first homes. In a 2007 survey, most roads in the estate showed an average house sale price of over £3,000,000 in the previous 12 months.

Weybridge town in the Elmbridge district of Surrey, England

Weybridge is a town by the River Wey in the Elmbridge district of Surrey. It is bounded to the north by the River Thames at the mouth of the Wey, from which it gets its name. It is an outlying suburban town within the Greater London Urban Area, situated 7 miles northeast of Woking and 16 miles southwest of central London. Real estate prices are well above the national average: as of 2008, six of the ten most expensive streets in South East England were in Weybridge.

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References

  1. ↑ "Hugh Tapsfield". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2011-05-27.
  2. ↑ For example: "Cricket: Oxford University - The Eleven v Sixteen Freshmen", The Times, London (32698), p. 8, 1889-05-14
  3. ↑ "Scorecard: Oxford University v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 1892-06-09. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
  4. ↑ ""The Frogs" at Oxford", The Times, London (33570), p. 5, 1892-02-25
  5. ↑ "News in Brief: St Albans", The Times, London (34524), p. 14, 1895-03-14
  6. ↑ "Good Friday: St Paul's", The Times, London (36728), p. 10, 1902-03-29
  7. ↑ "Ecclesiastical Intelligence", The Times, London (38157), p. 10, 1906-10-22
  8. ↑ "Ecclesiastical Intelligence", The Times, London (38196), p. 12, 1906-12-06
  9. ↑ "Deaths", The Times, London (50084), p. 1, 1945-03-06
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