Henry Hervey Aston

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Henry Hervey Aston

Personal information
Full name	Henry Hervey Aston
Born	1759 Aston-by-Sutton, Cheshire, England
Died	23 December 1798 (aged 38/39) Madras, Madras Presidency, British India
Batting	Unknown
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1791–1792	Middlesex
1792–1793	Marylebone Cricket Club
1792	Hampshire
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 13 Runs scored 76 Batting average 4.00 100s/50s –/– Top score 15* Catches/stumpings 7/–
Source: Cricinfo, 16 June 2022

Colonel Henry Hervey Aston (1759 – 23 December 1798) was an English cricketer who played for the Hambledon Club. He was at different times a member of both the Hambledon Club and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). A useful batsman, Aston made 13 known first-class appearances from 1786 to 1793 when his military duties took precedence.

In December 1793, Aston obtained a Lieutenant-colonelcy in the 12th Foot. Afterwards, he went to Madras, where, in 1798,he fought a duel with Major Picton. Both fired into the air. The next day, in another duel, he was wounded by a new adversary, Major Allen. After languishing for about a week, Aston died on 23 December 1798.

Family

Aston married Hon. Harriet Ingram-Shepherd, fourth daughter of Charles Ingram, 9th Viscount of Irvine and his wife Frances Shepherd, of Temple Newsam near Leeds, on 16 September 1789. They had two sons, Henry Charles Hervey-Aston and Sir Arthur Ingram Aston, and a daughter, Harriet, who married Lieut.-Col. Edmund Henry Bridgeman.

References

• G B Buckley, Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket, Cotterell, 1935
• Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744-1826), Lillywhite, 1862
• H T Waghorn, The Dawn of Cricket, Electric Press, 1906

External links

• Henry Hervey Aston at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)