Raymond Smythies
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Full name | Raymond Brewster Smythies | ||||||||||||||
Born | 18 June 1824 Stanground, Huntingdonshire, England | ||||||||||||||
Died | 19 January 1861 Brighton, Sussex, England | (aged 36)||||||||||||||
Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||
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1854 | Marylebone Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 12 September 2019 |
Raymond Brewster Smythies (18 June 1824 – 19 January 1861) was an English first-class cricketer, clergyman and educator.
Descended from an old Essex family,[1] Smythies was born to the Reverend Henry Yeats Smythies in June 1824 at Stanground, Huntingdonshire. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[2] He graduated from Cambridge in 1847 and was ordained as a deacon at Worcester in the same year. He completed his masters at Cambridge in 1850,[2] the same year that he made his debut in first-class cricket, when he played for the North in the North v South fixture at Lord's. He made two additional first-class appearances in the 1850s. The first came for the against the at Lord's in 1852, while the second came for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Oxford University in 1854.[3] He worked as an assistant master at Rugby School between 1847 and his death at Brighton in January 1861. He had married in 1859 and had issue.[2]
References[]
- ^ Smythies, Raymond Henry Raymond (1894). Historical Records of the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment. A. H. Swiss. pp. vii. ISBN 5878066777.
- ^ a b c Venn, John (2011). Alumni Cantabrigienses. Vol. 5. Cambridge University Press. pp. 582.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Raymond Smythies". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
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- 1824 births
- 1861 deaths
- People from Peterborough
- Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- 19th-century English Anglican priests
- Schoolteachers from Cambridgeshire
- English cricketers
- North v South cricketers
- Gentlemen of the North cricketers
- Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers