Edward Ellis (cricketer, born 1810)
Edward Chauncy Ellis (10 January 1810 – 28 March 1887) was an English cricketer who was associated with Cambridge University Cricket Club and made his first-class debut in 1829.[1]
Ellis was born in Leyton, Essex. He was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1828 and won a blue for cricket in 1829; later he was ordained in the Church of England and after curacies in Essex became the rector of Langham, Essex (in the diocese of St Albans) in 1847 and stayed there until his death there in 1887.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Edward Ellis". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- ^ "Ellis, Edward Chauncy (ELS826EC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
Bibliography[]
- Haygarth, Arthur (1862). Scores & Biographies, Volume 2 (1827–1840). Lillywhite.
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- 1810 births
- 1887 deaths
- English cricketers
- English cricketers of 1826 to 1863
- Cambridge University cricketers
- Gentlemen cricketers
- People from Leyton
- People from Langham, Essex
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- 19th-century English Anglican priests
- English cricket biography, 1810s birth stubs