Charles Sweet

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Charles Sweet
Personal information
Full nameCharles Francis Long Sweet
Born(1860-11-29)29 November 1860
Bath, Somerset, England
Died24 January 1932(1932-01-24) (aged 71)
Teignmouth, Devon, England
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1882–1883Somerset
First-class debut13 July 1882 Somerset v Gloucestershire
Last First-class23 August 1883 Somerset v Hampshire
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 5
Runs scored 67
Batting average 16.75
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 19*
Catches/stumpings 3/–
Source: CricketArchive, 19 May 2011

Charles Francis Long Sweet (29 November 1860 – 24 January 1932) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Somerset County Cricket Club during the 1880s. He made five first-class and seven second-class appearances for the county as a lower-order batsman.

Life and career[]

Sweet attended Winchester College and played for the school cricket team, appearing against Eton College in 1879.[1] He then entered Keble College, University of Oxford, where he played in the freshmen's trial and the seniors trial in 1880 and 1882 respectively, but did not earn a place on the university team.[2] As a student, he got a fourth-class degree in modern history.[3] He made his county debut for Somerset while the side was still a second-class county, debuting against Leicestershire in 1880. He scored three runs in the first innings, and a further eleven in the second, helping Somerset to an 85-run victory.[4] Sweet scored his highest total for the county, 26 not out while playing against the "Gentlemen of Devon" in 1880, a match in which Somerset reached 357 and achieved an innings victory.[5]

He made his debut first-class appearance during Somerset's maiden year as a first-class county, scoring three runs in the first innings, followed by two in the second against Gloucestershire in 1882.[6] He played three more times that year, during which he reached his highest first-class total, scoring 16 runs against Hampshire, and finishing not out in the innings.[7] He made one further appearance, in 1883, before playing no further notable cricket.

Sweet married Edith Maud Walrond on 6 July 1887, and the pair had three children; George Charles, Dorothy Maud and Leonard Herbert, all of whom adopted the double barrelled surname Walrond Sweet.[8] He was a minister in the Church of England, and acted as rector of Symondsbury, and as curate of St Nicholas Church in Winterborne Kingston. In 1902 he moved from a post as vicar of Milton Lilbourne, Wiltshire, to be vicar at Stourpaine, Dorset.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ "Eton College v Winchester College". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
  2. ^ "Other matches played by Charles Sweet (12)". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
  3. ^ "University Intelligence", The Times, London, no. 30692, p. 5, 16 December 1882
  4. ^ "Leicestershire v Somerset in 1880". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
  5. ^ "Gentlemen of Somerset v Gentlemen of Devon in 1880". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
  6. ^ "Gloucestershire v Somerset in 1882". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
  7. ^ "Hampshire v Somerset in 1882". CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
  8. ^ The Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval (2001) [1911]. The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: Mortimer-Percy Volume. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books. p. 78.
  9. ^ "Ecclesiastical Intelligence", The Times, London, no. 36894, p. 9, 9 October 1902
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