Henry Bell (cricketer)
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Full name | Henry Bell | ||||||||||||||
Born | 4 January 1838 Oulton, Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||
Died | 11 June 1919 Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France | (aged 81)||||||||||||||
Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 17 November 2019 |
Henry Bell (4 January 1838 – 11 June 1919) was an English first-class cricketer and an Anglican clergyman.
The son of the Reverend John Bell, he was born in January 1838 at
W. Little, while in their second-innings he was not out batting at number eleven, having scored a single run.[4] After graduating from Durham, he returned to Marlborough to take up the post of assistant master, which he held between 1862–72.[2] By 1878, he was the personal chaplain to Lord Muncaster while also concurrently serving as vicar of Muncaster.[2] He was appointed to the position of honorary canon of Carlisle Cathedral in 1888,[1] while the following year he was appointed as proctor for the Archdeacon of Furness, Arthur Crosse.[2] Bell died in France at Saint-Jean-de-Luz in June 1919.[1] His son, Aubrey FitzGerald Bell
, was a Portuguese and Spanish scholar.
References
- ^ a b c "Wisden - Other deaths in 1919". ESPNcricinfo. 2 December 2005. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
- ^ ISBN 1528103440.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Henry Bell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
- ^ "Gentlemen of the South v Gentlemen of the North 1862". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 November 2019.