David Buchanan (cricketer)
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Born | Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland | 16 January 1830||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 30 May 1900 Rugby, Warwickshire, England | (aged 70)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Left-arm slow-medium Left-arm fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 21 August 2019 |
David Buchanan (16 January 1830 – 30 May 1900) was an English
Biography
Buchanan, despite his very short stature (compared by a later review to
For the following twelve years, Buchanan worked as secretary and treasurer of the Rugby Club
It was
The following year, Buchanan was not quite so successful but still his eight wickets were critical to a seventeen run Gentlemen victory in a match totalling 915 runs.
1875, however, saw Buchanan bowl so poorly in the annual matches against Oxford and Cambridge that he was omitted from the Gentlemen's eleven – never to be selected again even when he recovered form somewhat in the corresponding games of 1876. Buchanan was never the same bowler as between 1867 and 1874, but he was still though good enough to receive an invitation to tour Australia with
However, from 1877 onwards Buchanan, as a resident in Rugby, played a critical role in the establishment of a Warwickshire County Club,[2] which was officially founded in its present form for the 1882 season. Buchanan was at this stage fifty-two, but captained the club's for its initial four years with considerable success and continued as treasurer of the club until 1889.[2] By this time Warwickshire was well on the way to achieving the status of a first-class team with players like Henry Pallett, the Quaife brothers, Dick Lilley and Ludford Docker.
During the rest of his life Buchanan continued as treasurer to the Rugby club and wrote extensively about the spin bowling he had developed in his thirties, with his major work being "Hints on Slow Bowling" (1894). Around that time he also wrote a book about the rise of the Warwickshire County Club as it was becoming first-class.[2]
Family
David Buchanan married Anna Wyndham Penruddocke on 29 September 1853 in St. Peter, Milton Lilbourne, Wiltshire
Children of David Buchanan & Anna Wyndham Penruddocke
- Annie Letitia Buchanan b: 1854
- Adeline Wyndham Buchanan b: 1855
- Helen Rokeby Buchanan b: 1857
- John Penruddock Buchanan b: 1864
- David Penruddocke Buchanan b: 1866 d: 1866
- Gertrude L Buchanan b: 1866
- Margaret Henrietta Buchanan b: 1869
- Jessie Lowther Buchanan b: 1872
- Florence Beresford Buchanan b: 1874
- George Penruddocke Buchanan b: 1877
References
- ^ "Buchanan, David (BCNN848D)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d “Talks with Old English Cricketers”
- ^ “Cricket Notes”; in Chronicle; 14 July 1900; p. 30
- ^ Oxford University v Southgate in 1867
- ^ Gale, Frederick; “A Long Story About Cricket”; in The New Sporting Magazine (1869); p. 34
- ^ Gentlemen v Players in 1869
- ^ Gentlemen v Players in 1872
- John Wisden's Cricketers’ Almanac; Forty-Sixth Edition (1909)
- ^ Gentlemen v Players in 1874
- ^ Obituaries in 1900