Charles Waller (cricketer)
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Full name | Charles Edward Waller | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | September 1832 Trimley St. Mary, Suffolk, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 9 March 1886 (aged 53) at sea, Atlantic Ocean | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 22 December 2018 |
Charles Edward Waller (September 1832 – 9 March 1886) was an English first-class cricketer.
The son of the Reverend Charles Waller, Sr.,[1] he was born at Trimley St. Mary in September 1832. He was educated at Marlborough College, before going up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1851.[1] He made his debut in first-class cricket for the Surrey Club against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord's in 1855.[2] He made a further first-class appearance for the Surrey Club in 1858, also against the MCC.[2] He scored a total of 20 runs across his two first-class matches, with a highest score of 12.[3] By 1886, he was the vicar of Humberstone near Leicester.[4] He was a passenger aboard the SS Oregon in March 1886, along with his wife and son, when it collided with an unidentified schooner 32 miles from Jones Inlet, New York. While making it to a lifeboat he became ill, fell overboard and drowned.[4]
References[]
- ^ a b Venn, John (2011-09-15). Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Vol. Volume 2. Cambridge University Press. p. 327. ISBN 978-1108036146.
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has extra text (help) - ^ a b "First-Class Matches played by Charles Waller". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-12-22.
- ^ "Player profile: Charles Waller". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-12-22.
- ^ a b "Oregon Wrecked". www.wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 2018-12-22.
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- 1832 births
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- People from Suffolk Coastal (district)
- People educated at Marlborough College
- Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- English cricketers
- Surrey Club cricketers
- 19th-century English Anglican priests
- Deaths by drowning
- Deaths due to shipwreck at sea