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Guy Prendergast (cricketer)

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Guy Prendergast
Personal information
Full name
Guy Lushington Prendergast
Born3 August 1806
Bombay, India
Died5 November 1887 (1887-11-06) (aged 81)
Kensington, London
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1826Cambridge University
Source: CricketArchive, 22 June 2013
Monument, Kensal Green Cemetery

Guy Lushington Prendergast (3 August 1806 – 5 November 1887) was an English cricketer with amateur status who was associated with Cambridge University. He was recorded in one first-class match in 1826, totalling 0 runs with a highest score of 0 and holding one catch.[1]

He was a son of Guy Lenox Prendergast of the Bombay Civil Service (later MP for Lymington 1826–27). He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, but is not recorded to have taken a degree.[2]

In 1857, he published A Complete Concordance to the Poetical Works of Milton and then in 1875 A Complete Concordance to the Iliad of Homer.[3]

He is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.

References

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  1. ^ "Guy Prendergast". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
  2. ^ "Prendergast, Guy Lushington (PRNT823GL)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ "A complete concordance to the Iliad of Homer". Archive.org. Retrieved 5 July 2015.