Herbert Richard Peel
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| Full name | Herbert Richard Peel | ||||||||||||||
| Born |
8 February 1831 Canterbury, Kent, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died |
2 June 1885 (aged 54) Thornton, Buckinghamshire, England | ||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
| 1851 | Oxford University Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
| 1852 | Kent | ||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 12 June 1851 Oxford University Cricket Club v MCC | ||||||||||||||
| Last First-class | 8 July 1852 Oxford University Cricket Club v Cambridge University Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricInfo, 20 May 2016 | |||||||||||||||
Reverend Herbert Richard Peel was an English clergyman who played cricket for Oxford University and Kent County Cricket Club.
Life
He was the son of the Reverend John Peel (1798-1875), at the time a prebendary of Canterbury Cathedral but later Dean of Worcester, and his wife Augusta Swinfen (1805-1861). Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, twice prime minister of the United Kingdom, was his uncle.[1]
Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained an MA,[1] he became a priest in the Church of England and in 1860 was appointed by his father as rector of Handsworth, an industrial town then in Staffordshire.[2]
Retiring from the ministry in 1873, he went to live in Buckinghamshire and on 2 July 1885 shot himself in his house in Thornton. His will, proved in London on 28 July, left a personal estate of 97,000 pounds (worth over 9 million pounds in 2015).[3]
Cricket career
His first-class cricket career was brief, playing in nine matches for Oxford University, Kent County Cricket Club and the Gentlemen of Kent in the 1851 and 1852 seasons. He played as a batsman, with a top score of 82.[4] He played in non-first-class matches for a variety of teams, including the pre-county Worcestershire and Oxfordshire clubs and I Zingari.[5]
Family
On 6 September 1853 at Hartlebury in Worcestershire, he married Georgiana Maria Baker (1830-1907), only daughter of the Reverend Thomas Baker, rector of Hartlebury, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Bishop Robert James Carr.[1] They had four children:
- Alice (1854-1942), who married Arthur Howard Heath, a keen cricketer and rugby international.[1]
- Herbert (1856-1933), who married Muriel Hilda Miller.[1]
- Amy (1859-1929), who married the Reverend James Henry Savory, another cricketer and FA Cup finalist footballer.[1]
- Augusta (1862-1925), who married first William Wyckham Tyrwhitt-Drake and secondly Frederick Peter Game.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mosley, Charles (2003), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage (107 ed.), Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A. 6Publisher = Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, retrieved 22 May 2016
- ↑ Handsworth, St Mary, retrieved 22 May 2016
- ↑ "England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, database on-line". Provo, UT, USA. Retrieved 20 May 2016. Subscription needed
- ↑ First-class matches played by Herbert Peel, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
- ↑ Teams Herbert Peel played for, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2016-05-22.
External links
- Player profile: Herbert Richard Peel from CricketArchive
- Player profile: Herbert Richard Peel from ESPNcricinfo