Henry Finch (cricketer)
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Full name | Henry Randolph Finch | ||||||||||||||
Born | 18 October 1842 Paddington, Middlesex, England | ||||||||||||||
Died | 6 December 1935 Oakham, Rutland, England | (aged 93)||||||||||||||
Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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1866 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 26 February 2020 |
Henry Randolph Finch JP (18 October 1842 – 6 December 1935) was an English first-class cricketer and barrister.
The son of Henry Finch, he was born in October 1842 at Paddington. He was educated at Harrow School,[1] before matriculating at Balliol College, Oxford in 1861, where he graduated B.A. in 1866.[2] He played first-class cricket for Southgate against Oxford University in 1864 at Oxford, before playing a first-class match for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Hampshire at Southampton in 1866.[3] A student of the Inner Temple, he was called to the bar in April 1868 and practised on the Midland Circuit.[4] Finch also served as a land agent and a justice of the peace for Rutland.[1] He died in Rutland at Oakham in December 1935.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Stogdon, John Hubert (1925). The Harrow School Register, 1845-1925. Longmans, Green and Company. p. 86.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Henry Finch". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1885). Men-at-the-bar. Reeves and Turner. p. 20.
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- 1842 births
- 1935 deaths
- Cricketers from the City of Westminster
- People from Paddington
- People educated at Harrow School
- Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
- English cricketers
- Southgate cricketers
- Members of the Inner Temple
- Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
- English justices of the peace
- English cricket biography, 1840s birth stubs