Raymond Smythies

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Raymond Smythies
Personal information
Full nameRaymond Brewster Smythies
Born18 June 1824
Stanground, Huntingdonshire,
England
Died19 January 1861(1861-01-19) (aged 36)
Brighton, Sussex, England
BattingUnknown
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1854Marylebone Cricket Club
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 3
Runs scored 14
Batting average 3.50
100s/50s –/–
Top score 7*
Catches/stumpings 2/–
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[]

  1. ^ Smythies, Raymond Henry Raymond (1894). Historical Records of the 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment. A. H. Swiss. pp. vii. ISBN 5878066777.
  2. ^ a b c Venn, John (2011). Alumni Cantabrigienses. Vol. 5. Cambridge University Press. pp. 582.
  3. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Raymond Smythies". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 September 2019.

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