Townsend Warner
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Full name | George Townsend Warner | ||||||||||||||
Born | 9 May 1841 Southampton, Hampshire, England | ||||||||||||||
Died | 22 November 1902 Torquay, Devon, England | (aged 61)||||||||||||||
Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
Bowling | Unknown-arm underarm | ||||||||||||||
Relations | William Warner (brother) | ||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
1862 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||
1863 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 25 January 2023 |
Warner's son also called George Townsend Warner was a house-master at
Warner was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] As a cricketer, he played as an opening batsman in two matches against Cambridge University: one for the Cambridge Town Club in 1860 and the other for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1863.[1] Though he played in trial matches and lesser games for Cambridge University, his only first-class match for the university's first team saw him bat in the lower order and he was not successful. It is not known if he batted right-handed, or left-handed.[1]
Warner graduated from
In 1875, Warner became headmaster of the Newton Abbot Proprietary college; one of his pupils there was the writer Arthur Quiller-Couch who wrote of him:[2]
A tall sanguine man, in the middle years, but athletic yet, a rare runner between wickets; in school, and out of it, an organiser: a gentleman with every attribute of a good Head Master save a sense of justice, of which he had scarcely a glimmer, and being choleric, could be angriest when most unjust.
Warner also taught Bertram Fletcher Robinson and Percy Fawcett who later befriended and influenced the author, Arthur Conan Doyle.[3]
From 1895 to his death in 1902 he returned to church work as rector of Alfold, Surrey.[2]
Warner's younger brother William was a much more successful cricketer at Cambridge University.
References
- ^ a b c "Townsend Warner". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
- ^ a b c d e J. Venn and J. A. Venn. "Alumni Cantabrigienses: George Townsend Warner". p. 355. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
- ^ "B. Fletcher Robinson Chronology" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2024.