John Thornhill JP (14 July 1815 –28 January 1875) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.
The son of the politician George Thornhill,he was born in July 1815 at Hemingford Grey,Huntingdonshire. He was educated at Rugby School, [1] before going up to St John's College,Cambridge. [2] After graduating from Cambridge,he took holy orders in the Anglican Church,being ordained as a deacon at Durham Cathedral in 1838. His first ecclesiastical post was at Boxworth in Cambridgeshire,where he was appointed reverend in 1839. [2] Thornhill was from a cricketing family,with his brothers Charles and George both playing first-class cricket. Thornhill himself played two first-class matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club,both against Cambridge University at Cambridge in 1840 and 1842. [3] He scored 19 runs in his two matches,with a highest score of 8. [4] From 1850 he was concurrently the reverend of Childerley,a hamlet to the south of Boxworth. [2] Thornhill was also a justice of the peace for Cambridgeshire. He died at Boxworth in January 1875. [5]
Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Cambridgeshire including the Isle of Ely.
1869 was the 83rd season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). The Cambridgeshire club went into demise,thougha team called Cambridgeshire later played in two specially arranged matches,in 1869 against Yorkshire and in 1871 against Surrey. After that,Cambridgeshire ceased to be a first-class team. The problem was attributed to the lack of available amateurs to back up the famous trio of Bob Carpenter,the first Tom Hayward and George Tarrant,along with the absence of useful patronage and the difficulty of obtaining membership which led to a debt deemed unpayable.
George William Spencer Lyttelton CB FRGS was an English civil servant from the Lyttelton family who acted as private secretary to William Ewart Gladstone during three of his terms as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was also one of eleven members of the Lyttelton family to play first-class cricket;primarily for Cambridge University during his time studying there.
Reverend John Richard Bridger was an English cricketer. Bridger was a right-handed batsman and a leg break bowler.
George Thornhill was an English cricketer with amateur status who was active from 1831 to 1836. He was born in England and died in Folkestone. He made his first-class debut in 1831 and appeared in seven matches as an unknown handedness batsman whose bowling style is unknown,playing for Cambridge University. He scored 59 runs with a highest score of 11 and took four wickets. Thornhill was the eldest son of George Thornhill (1783–1852),a Huntingdonshire landowner who became Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire from 1837 to his death in 1852. He was educated at Eton and St John's College,Cambridge. He was High Sheriff of Huntingdonshire in 1869.
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