Frederick Thornhill
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| Born | 25 September 1846 Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 23 July 1876 (aged 29) Toton Sidings, England | ||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1876 | Derbyshire | ||||||||||||||
| Only FC | 1 June 1876 Derbyshire v Lancashire | ||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 17 January 2011 | |||||||||||||||
Frederick Thornhill (25 September 1846 – 23 July 1876) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire in 1876.
Thornhill was born in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, the son of Richard Thornhill (1817-1896) and his wife Eliza Reynolds (1824-1907) and became an engine stoker and later a guard for the Midland Railway.[1] He took part in a cricket match playing for Birmingham in 1866. He made a single appearance for Derbyshire in the 1876 season, against Lancashire in June, when he mode no score in either innings.[2]
Just over a month later, Thornhill died at the age of 29 at Toton Sidings, the largest marshalling yards of the Midland Railway.[3]
Thornhill married Elizabeth Bywater on 19 November 1867 in St John the Baptist Church, Beeston. They had the following children:
- Elizabeth Thornhill (1868-1956)
- Frederick Thornhill (b. 1870)
- Mary Ann Thornhill (1872-1948)
- Annie Maria Thornhill (1875-1951)
- Emily Thornhill (1876-1946)
References
[edit]- ^ Beresford Family History
- ^ Frederick Thornhill at Cricket Archive
- ^ "The Shocking Death of a Derbyshire Cricketer". Nottinghamshire Guardian. England. 28 July 1876. Retrieved 10 September 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.