John Thomas Athawes JP (8 December 1837 –3 October 1915) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.
The son of The Reverend John Athawes,he was born in December 1837 at Loughton,Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Winchester College, [1] before going up to Clare College,Cambridge. [2] He did not play cricket while attending Winchester,but did play for Cambridge University Cricket Club in minor matches. [3] However,while studying at Cambridge he did make a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Cambridge University at Fenner's in 1860. [4] He batted once in the match,opening the batting in the MCC first innings and scoring 12 runs,before being dismissed by Edward Fawcett. [5]
After graduating from Cambridge,Athawes took holy orders in the Anglican Church in 1862,being ordained as a deacon. He took his curacy at Loughton in the same year,which he held until 1864. For the next three years he held the curacy at East Hendred. [1] Athawes was appointed the headmaster of St John's Middle School at Kennington in 1867,a post he remained in until 1881. He spent 1882 in Italy as a chaplain at Bologna. [2] Athawes returned to Loughton in 1883 to take up the post of reverend,which he held until his death at Loughton at Tenbury Wells in October 1915. [3] Beside his ecclesiastical duties,Athawes was the diocesan inspector of schools for Oxford and was a justice of the peace for Buckinghamshire. He was also chairman of both the Newport Pagnell Board of Guardians and the Rural District Council. [2]
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