Edwin Dyke
Edwin Francis Dyke (27 September 1842 – 26 August 1919) was an English
As a cricketer, Dyke was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a left-arm medium pace bowler. It was as a bowler that he made an immediate impression in his only first-class match of 1864: he took 10
Family and career
Dyke came from a cricketing family: his uncle was Herbert Jenner who captained Cambridge in the first official University match, and the long-lived Herbert Jenner-Fust was a cousin, as was Charles Nepean.[1] He was educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[5]
After graduation, Dyke was ordained in the Church of England; he was a curate at Crayford and West Wickham and then vicar at Orpington before moving to Maidstone from 1883 to 1896.[5] From 1896 to 1916 he was rector of Mersham in Kent and he was an honorary canon of Canterbury Cathedral from 1892 to his death in 1919.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Edwin Dyke". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ "Scorecard: Marylebone Cricket Club v Cambridge University". www.cricketarchive.com. 6 June 1864. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
- ^ "Scorecard: Oxford University v Cambridge University". www.cricketarchive.com. 26 June 1865. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
- ^ "Scorecard: Sussex v Marylebone Cricket Club". www.cricketarchive.com. 13 August 1866. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
- ^ a b c J. Venn and J. A. Venn. "Alumni Cantabrigienses: Edwin Dyke". p. 366. Retrieved 2 July 2014.