Edward Stanley (cricketer)

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Edward Stanley
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Personal information
Full name
Edward Stanley
Born(1852-06-29)29 June 1852
Charlton Horethorne, Somerset, England
Died7 April 1896(1896-04-07) (aged 43)
Accra, Gold Coast
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1884Somerset County Cricket Club
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 1
Runs scored 0
Batting average 0.00
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 0
Catches/stumpings 0/0
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 24 January 2019

Major Edward Stanley (29 June 1852 – 7 April 1896) was an English military officer who played one first-class cricket match for Somerset County Cricket Club as an emergency stand-in in 1884. Somerset had arrived in Manchester a player short for their fixture against Lancashire, and had to seek special permission to include Stanley in their team. Stanley lived in Manchester, but had been born in Somerset, and thus qualified for the county. His only first-class appearance was not successful; he did not bowl, and scored no runs in either innings of the match.

Life and career

Edward Stanley was born in

Saint Saviour, Jersey. Stanley attended Victoria College, Jersey, a private school, where he played cricket for the school's first team from 1868 until 1870. He was also a keen athlete, and won a mile-race in a time of 5:45.[1]

Stanley became an assistant master in a

2nd Regiment of Foot which took him to Ireland and Manchester. A subsequent transfer to the North Staffordshire Regiment sent him to the West Indies, before domestic appointments to Lichfield, Plymouth and Portsmouth. He retired from the army in 1888 as a major. Two years later, he joined the Colonial Service and was posted in 1892 as Inspector General of the Houssa Force in Lagos, Nigeria. He had been in the role for four years when he was taken ill with malaria. While sailing home to England from Lagos, he died on 7 April 1896, when the boat put into Accra in Ghana.[1]

County cricket appearance

In late August 1884,

Tunbridge Wells, where that match had been played, to Manchester to play the next day. They were due to be met in Manchester by three members of the Somerset team that had not been able to make it to Kent; John Challen, Bill Roe and Herbert Fowler.[1] Unfortunately for Somerset, Fowler was taken ill and had to withdraw from the match. Newspaper reports on the first day's play either listed ten players, omitting Fowler, or included him as 'absent'; no mention was made of Stanley.[2][3]

Despite these reports, Somerset had managed to get permission from Lancashire for Edward Stanley to play for them. Stanley was posted to Manchester at the time as a captain in the 2nd Regiment of Foot, and was qualified to play for Somerset on the basis of his birth in the county. He did come out to bat in the first innings at number eleven, but had to retire hurt after being hit by the second delivery he faced. In the second innings, he once again batted eleventh, but was dismissed first ball.[1] By the end of the second day, he was correctly listed on newspaper scorecards, though some listed him as 'absent' for the first innings. Somerset lost the match by ten wickets.[4][5]

Stanley did not appear in first-class cricket again, meaning that his 'career' featured one match, in which he scored no runs, and took no wickets or catches.[6] He was a keen club cricketer, and appeared for Lichfield Cricket Club amongst others.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-85704-291-0
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  2. Birmingham Daily Post
    . No. 8163. Birmingham, England. 29 August 1884. p. 5 – via British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900.
  3. ^ "Cricket". The Times. No. 31225. London. 29 August 1884. p. 8 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  4. ^ "Cricket". The Times. No. 31226. London. 30 August 1884. p. 8 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  5. ^ "Cricket". Bristol Mercury and Daily Post. No. 11325. Bristol, England. 30 August 1884. p. 8 – via British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900.
  6. ^ "Player profile: Edward Stanley". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
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