Guy Prendergast (cricketer)
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Guy Lushington Prendergast |
Born | 3 August 1806 Bombay, India |
Died | 5 November 1887 Kensington, London | (aged 81)
Domestic team information | |
Years | Team |
1826 | Cambridge University |
Source: CricketArchive, 22 June 2013 |
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
[edit]- ^ "Guy Prendergast". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
- ^ "Prendergast, Guy Lushington (PRNT823GL)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "A complete concordance to the Iliad of Homer". Archive.org. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
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- 1806 births
- 1887 deaths
- People educated at Harrow School
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Cambridge University cricketers
- English cricketers
- English cricketers of 1826 to 1863
- 19th-century English sportsmen
- Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery
- People from Bombay Presidency
- British sportspeople in British India
- English cricket biography, 1800s birth stubs